Iran turns to internal crackdown in wake of 12-day war

While it holds a ceasefire with Israel, Iran is stepping up an internal crackdown with mass arrests, executions and military deployments, officials and activists said. Within days of Israel’s airstrikes beginning on June 13, Iranian security forces started a campaign of widespread arrests accompanied by an intensified street presence based around checkpoints. FRANCE 24 speaks to Hussein Baoumi, deputy regional director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International.