Public opinion on Iran's executions is sharply divided. A segment supports these measures as necessary for national security, emphasizing the importance of protecting the state against perceived threats. However, a significant number of commenters express outrage over human rights abuses, the lack of fair trials, and the risks of executing innocent individuals. Many view these actions as politically motivated, aimed at suppressing dissent rather than genuinely addressing terrorism.

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Well, ISIS membership plus terror/insurrectionist stuff.

A religious extremist, but not their kind of extremist, being the Sunni Salafist Jihadist putting their ideals into action type.

steve_ample

They quickly issued an apology as this was a clerical error.

jordan1978

humbleObserver

Pretty bad when Iran is even like...Yeah, this guy's gotta go.

Brussle-Sprout

Fear is the only way Ayatollah lives to 90

Jugales

Mass executions will now resume 

The current regime needs ousted one way or another

GreatBigDin

Someone needs to get the blame for their incompetence

Brieble

Wow that's a lot.

Now, wonder how they figured it out, if it's true and not just a reactionary drag net to give the appearance of results.

AtanatarAlcarinII

Iran back to doing what it does best, kill it's own people

New-Load-651

This mass arrest campaign comes right after we learned about Israel's extensive intelligence penetration of Iran. (Those audio recordings of Israeli operatives calling Iranian generals directly, the 30-40 intelligence cells reportedly operating inside Iran, and the precise targeting during recent strikes.) 

700 arrests in 12 days suggests either Iran discovered a genuinely massive spy network *or* they're casting an extremely wide net and likely sweeping up a lot of innocent people alongside any actual collaborators. The geographic spread across multiple provinces indicates this isn't just targeting a single cell.

The 10,000 MAVs (micro aerial vehicles) seized in Tehran alone is a staggering number if accurate. That would suggest industrial-scale intelligence gathering operations, which aligns with reports about Israel's sophisticated surveillance networks inside Iran.

However, the rushed executions and "wartime legal provisions" are deeply concerning from a human rights perspective. *When regimes feel threatened, they often use spy paranoia to settle scores with dissidents, ethnic minorities, or anyone they want to silence.* The emergency parliamentary bill expanding espionage penalties suggests this could become a broader crackdown.

The timing also matters. Iran's leadership needs to show they're taking action after being embarrassed by Israel's intelligence superiority. Mass arrests help project strength domestically even if many detainees are innocent.

Given Israel's demonstrated capabilities, Iran probably does have legitimate security concerns. But 700 arrests in two weeks suggests this is as much about political theater and internal control as it is about actual counterintelligence.

The real question is how many of these people are actual spies versus scapegoats.

divinadottr

I remember when Trump had a list of Israeli spies in Syria. He gave the information to Putin and within a couple of weeks all the spies were missing. This sounds familiar.

Maleficent-Guest-144

Iran Arrests ~~Israeli Spies~~ Activists and Critics of current regime. Ayatollah is a fear mongering coward.

MuchBow

Yeah, I’m starting to wonder if Israel regrets involving Trump, he managed to forfeit a winning position into a tie.

Avatele

Oh so that won’t change anything. More Mossad operatives in Iran than they realize

Desi0190

Lord Iranian people need to be freed from this tyranny. This is the time for them to take control of their lives. Unfortunately I don't think it'll be easy or bloodless...  I wish only the best for them, their government is nothing more than a huge terrorist organization.

striker9119

"Alleged" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this headline!

CryptoCryBubba

700 people? Is anyone in Iran not an Israeli spy?

sr_edits

F\*\*k the IRGC. Bunch of terrorists. Trump's ceasefire has made this crackdown possible, and it's only just beginning. It's entirely his fault that so many Iranians will be tortured and murdered.

TheTrollerOfTrolls

…so they fired their entire government ?

PossibleCash6092

Which means they have no idea which ones are involved. Mass arrests to show strength and intimidate resistance. If they catch a few agents, that's an accidental side effect.

w0weez0wee

And a good percentage of them have nothing to do with it.  Instead of innocent until proven guilty, they will be proven guilty until proven otherwise.

macross1984

At best my guess is 10-20% of them have any actual ties. This is about fear that collaboration with Israel will get you arrested and bad things will happen to you.

giantrhino

Most will be hug...  they beleave in fast quick justice

denn1959-Public_396

They just arrest political dissidents and call them mossad agents...

Mrled00

Eventually Iran is going to arrest everyone, claiming they have ties to Mossad.

GlobalTravelR

Sometimes, you really just have to admire the type of power intel agencies have over their enemies.

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Tricky-Bat5937

So, maybe a few spies and then all their families and friends.

TyhmensAndSaperstein

The more paranoid a regime becomes, the more anti incumbency it garners. Once it reaches a tipping point,  It's easier for actual foreign agents to enact a regime change. There is no going back.

DesiOtakuu

And this was Mossad's objective. They intentionally left a few high ranking members alive to create mistrust

FredGarvin80

Welp...we just got attacked.

Time to round up all the "spies" we knew about.

CactusZac098

Only 700 executions! Iran is slacking off!

Adept-Mulberry-8720

So if there were 700 spies and micro drone factories what has the Iranian government been up to all these years? Asleep at the wheel? I bet the 700 are just known dissidents who they want to make an example of.

Shawn_The_Sheep777

697 Teenage girls who didn't wear a headscarf and 3 IRGC corrupt officers no doubt.

Breadfruitdeeznuts

Ohhhhh it’s gonna suck to be those 700 people

Bass0rdie

Wonder what algorithm they use to pick random people as spies. Is it "belonging to the same meetup group"? "Sitting together at the same cafe"? "Not wearing a hijab properly"? And why 700? Why not 7000?

Jokes aside, this regime has to go.

Niceguy955

I would like to bet a trillion dollars that the team doing the arresting is all Mossad agents.

cathbadh

This is way less than ICE arrests for simply being brown.

ExceptioNonRite

Apparently, all this war has done is harden Iran’s resistance to change for the better. 

Good job…./S

N0n3of_This_Matter5

Th US is arresting just as many people for being brown

TopObligation8430

$10 says the folks arresting the Iranians are the Israeli spies.

Mntfrd_Graverobber

Wonder if those poor people actually spied for Israel, or just randomly picked from a prison to be the “daily spies”.

QuicksandHUM

IR no longer concerned with external enemies returns to do what it knows to do the best - repressing it's own population. There are already news about hundreds detained.

  
[https://hengaw.net/en/reports-and-statistics-1/2025/06/article-6](https://hengaw.net/en/reports-and-statistics-1/2025/06/article-6)

ReckonerIl

In other words, three randomly selected Iranians just lost their lives

East1st

And the best part is they were most likely not even spies and rather they were just Iranians critical of the regime like always.

95Kill3r

Iran using the war as an excuse to disappear dissidents

funksoldier83

&gt;Iran hangs 

Is the Ayatollah's legacy. It's what he'll best be remembered for, along with the poisoning and outright murder of Iranian children.  Makes the Shaw look good by comparison.

monkeywithgun

People only care about the Middle East when they can hate on Israel. When Israel commit war crimes and human rights violations , intense anger and rage. (Which is valid) When literally any other middle eastern country commit war crimes and human violations, crickets. Makes me think a lot of Reddit are antisemitic. Seems like you’re just getting mad when the jews do bad thing in the Middle East but everyone else get a pass.

logwhatever

Iranian regime lies to kill innocent people they deem against the regimes goals. That supreme leader and his entire regime need to be removed. 

The Iranian people deserve to live peacefully and prosper.

Jooodas

If there are 3 people in a room in Tehran, 4 are on Mossad's payroll.

CombatRedRover

Why is every commenter so sure that they were not actual spies?

hofdichter_og

I am no fan of Netanyahu's government. But if they want to kill all the Hamas or take down an inhumane regime in Iran, I send my blessing .

man0315

This is what happens when the jobs only half finished.

No-Whereas-9915

barnacle_ballsack

Ya, we now know that Israeli agents have deeply infiltrated inside Iran, I mean Mossad even released a video and sadly the Iranian regime might use this now to basically arrest anyone who’s even suspected of wrongdoing esp spying for Israel. It is one thing if the right people are arrested but I think a lot of innocent ones are gonna get arrested too. 

Iran has an absolutely horrible regime but you can’t do regime change via a US and Israel led invasion. Iranians themselves have to rise in massive numbers and somehow force this Govt to change or at least reform.

Vaminstein666

Yeah, can probably tell they are not israeli spies

barak8006

They just can't get out of their skins, can they?

Inside-Cranberry-340

I'm pretty sure they got the right men too. /S

tingkagol

The regime works from a position of fear, anxiety, and illegitimate power. They terrorize their populace because in the depth of their soul they know they are a fraud who seek nothing more than riches and power. Trump will be no different. The god they believe is not a true God.

MindPitt314

I mean, sure if they are indeed guilty of spying for Israel, and thus guilty of treason. But that's often a big if in Iranian court cases...

GM-Tuub

This feels like a comment section run by bots…

cashdug

*Iran government uses pretext of spying for Israel to hang three men

Guaranteed they’re just hanging political dissidents

Waste-Novel-9743

yosisoy

One could read that headline as the war with Israel is a pretext for this repression, but then we read info like this, from another post on Geopolitics today:

&gt;IDF chief reveals Israeli ground commandos operated inside Iran during war

And not only that, during the war,  Israel had surprisingly accurate info on the locations of top Iranian military and nuclear personnel, many of whom were killed in Israeli bombings during the first few days of the war.  Satellite intel can only  so much info about prime targets' locations.  No surprise that Iran is paranoid about spies.  Unfortunately, innocents always get caught in these roundups.

Adeptobserver1

They don’t need a “smokescreen” to ramp up executions. They have been doing that with or without a war. 

The correlation is more like, the war allowed them to identify humint sources working for Israel, thus an increase in executions.

EternalSabbatical

Magicalsandwichpress

I figure they're probably gonna do some kind of purge

This really showed Just how deeply embedded mossad is in Iran and the regimes probably going to be on super red alert

Completegibberishyes

I wonder how weak the regime would have to become for the people to actually revolt. It seems we’re not at that point yet, despite massive improvements, but the question is how much further is needed?

ADP_God

You are telling me that everyone wearing sunglasses isn't a Mossad agent?

steauengeglase

As per western logic:

Israel killing 50k innocent people so that they can bring back like 100 hostages back home is justified.

Iran killing 1000 people who they think are mossad agents when they just had a brutal war with Israel where sabotage against them was very common is not justified.

whatever_arghh

How do we know that this is not exactly propaganda against Iranian Govt?

I'm looking for some sane and logical explanation in favour of "not propaganda".

Not exactly in support of the Govt or its misdoings but it makes sense that a Govt who recently faced enemy incursions or massive intelligence or internal system failure would start arresting people identified as spies.

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