The arrests have raised fears that a new wave of repression is coming, as the government seeks to root out spy networks and clamp down on any dissent.

Iran had not only emerged from this war with a justifiable claim of achieving moral, psychological and strategic victory over both the Americans and Israelis. In this regard, the ceasefire announced by President Trump looks more like a strategic withdrawal to pause the punishing barrage of missiles that Israel had been subjected to by Iran,

Dozens of staff members, two inmates and a bystander were among the casualties of Israel’s attack on Tehran’s Evin prison last week