Prosecutors and courts are to set up a special department to prosecute "infiltrators". To punish more, current spy laws will be deviated from, and a decision has been made to closely monitor digital communication, announces the judiciary's spokesperson Asghar Jahangir on state television.
The internet will be monitored closely and those who are considered a threat to public order will be tracked down and confronted immediately, says Asghar Jahangir on Tuesday morning.
Threatening sms
Hundreds of sms have already been sent to people who have engaged in "destabilizing" activities online, he says further in the televised statement.
A person who TT has been in contact with tells that a relative of his has received such a message, after communicating about the war with his family abroad.
During most of the twelve days that the fighting has raged, the regime in Tehran has strangled the internet. And during the sporadic occasions when communication works, few Iranians dare to tell the outside world about their situation, for fear of the tightening oppression.
"They have cut off our internet connection, and no one talks about it", writes an Iranian woman in her 20s who lives in the Tehran area, and for security reasons does not want to give her name.
Roadblocks set up
The police, military, the notorious militia force Basij and intelligence forces have set up roadblocks in Tehran on Tuesday, announces Tehran's governor Mohammad Sadegh Motamediya according to state Iranian media.
At the same time, it is reported that hundreds of people around the country have been arrested, accused of collaborating with Israel. Several prisoners who were previously sentenced for espionage have been executed.
The tightened screws also mean that information about Israel's attacks does not reach the outside world. Residential buildings have been razed to the ground in Tehran, with a total of hundreds of civilian casualties as a result. During the first days of the war, an Israeli attack is said to have hit a hospital in the city of Kermanshah in western Iran, but few witnesses can tell about the horrors of the war.
"In this critical situation, they have shut down everything. And many false news are circulating. It feels like I'm going crazy, but there's no one who can hear me", says the young Iranian woman in her message to TT.
