The IRGC has announced that its officials have arrested nearly 240 people in operations in two provinces, Kurdistan and Kermanshah, Al Jazeera reports, citing Iran’s Mehr news agency.
In Kurdistan province, the IRGC claimed to have arrested 11 people while also killing one member of a Kurdish armed group.
IRGC forces also seized a cache of arms and ammunition. Nearly 70 others were arrested in separate raids, Mehr reports.
In Kermanshah province, the IRGC arrested 155 people, who, it said, belonged to “counter-revolutionary groups”, including four spies alleged to be associated with Israel’s Mossad.
