Nearly 140 elements affiliated with US, Israel arrested in southwest Iran

Authorities in the southwestern Iranian province of Khuzestan have arrested 138 individuals for collaborating with US-Israeli subversive schemes against the Islamic Republic.

The provincial police announced the arrests on Monday, identifying those arrested as "individuals affiliated with and misled by the Zionist and US regimes."

It said the arrests were the result of coordinated intelligence and law enforcement operations.

"Through technical intelligence operations and comprehensive police investigations," intelligence agents in the Khuzestan Police Intelligence Organization successfully identified and arrested the individuals, who were cooperating with hostile media, particularly the so-called "Iran International" and Manoto networks, over the previous 72 hours, the police said.

The announcement detailed the actions of those arrested.

"These individuals, with prior planning, would contact [the hostile networks] on phone, besides taking photographs and recording videos of sensitive military and security centers, which they would then send to the networks."

Authorities emphasized the importance of community vigilance, noting that prompt reporting of suspicious activities to the police emergency center helps prevent any destructive activity and actions aimed at sowing insecurity.

The arrests came amid the Israeli regime's and the US's latest bout of unprovoked aggression against the Islamic Republic that began late last month.

The country's intelligence bodies and law enforcement forces have detained numerous subversive elements amid the aggression, while the Islamic Republic's Armed Forces have confronted the aggressors with at least 86 waves of decisive and successful retaliatory strikes.

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