APA reports that mass arrests are being conducted in Lahijan, Gilan province.
The employees of the Ministry of Intelligence and National Security of the Islamic Republic of Iran (
They are Hamid Hadisi, Ibrahim Khoshsurat, Muris Baghiri and Muhandis Jafari. They are reportedly supporters of Iran's former president and chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council of Iran, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and are being detained at Rasht Central Prison.
They have had only a short phone conversation with their families up to now. With the start of the campaign for the presidential elections, MISIRI officers summon political activists to the Ministry's department by calling them, conduct searches in their houses and try to keep them in fear.