Iran has reportedly arrested 700 alleged saboteurs of its war against Israel.
The arrests began during the 12- day war but continued shortly afterwards, with intelligence sources saying more than 700 suspected saboteurs had been arrested for working for Israel and America.
Iranian authorities said the arrests followed “public information and investigations”, but gave no details.
The arrests followed growing concerns within Iran’ s security architecture as to how Israel managed to pull off pinpoint attacks on the brass of the military/security intelligence and nuclear science communities in the early days of the war.
Israel, allegedly buoyed by America’s Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, killed more than 25 military , intelligence and nuclear science specialists in strikes that experts say could not have been feasible without human sabotage at the echelon.
Sabotage of national security is a grave offence in Iran, especially when suspects are linked to Israel, which Teheran designates a terrorist, Zionist enemy state.
Following the arrests, the human rights community called for transparency in the trials.
Amnesty International in a statement on the matter, urged the Iranian government not to capitalize on the situation to go after its critics not linked to the alleged espionage.
Meanwhile, Iran has yet to react to hints by American President Donald Trump, of the imminence of a new round of talks between officials of both countries.
Trump, on the sidelines of the recent meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO, in The Hague, Netherlands, had hinted that the meeting could hold as early as next week.
But Iran, which had had its core nuclear facilities severely damaged by American heavy duty bombs, had yet to react to the hints.
America, on Saturday night, deployed 14 units of its 30,000( each weighs about the equivalent of 251 bags of 50kg measure of cement) Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOPS )on Iran’ s underground Fordow nuclear facility.
A total of 125 aircraft, including 7 units of the giant B-2 Bombers, also called the Big Ugly Flying Fighters, flew 18,000 kilometres, to reach their targets in Iran.
America has 21 units of the dreaded bomber and the MOPs are the single largest Non- nuclear bombs in the arsenal of any military in the world of today.
