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Wave of arrests against Jews in Iran – probably six executions
Updated on June 28, 2025 – 07:56 a.m.Reading time: 7 min.
US President Donald Trump assumes an early ceasefire in Gaza Strip. Israel is investigating shots in a distribution center. All developments in the news blog.
In the night of Saturday there were several explosions in the Iranian capital Tehran. As eyewitnesses report on social media, several drones above the village of Bid Kaneh were sighted to the Malard district in the west of the metropolis. The air defense had become active and shot the flight objects.
There are no reports about possible damage or origin of the shot down drones, an official statement by the Iranian regime is not available.
After the war with Israel, the regime in Iran is probably taking the Jewish minority in the country to the finish. The human rights organization Association Femme Azadi (AFA), which is operating from the exile, wrote in a Facebook post on Friday that the houses were searched by at least 20 rabbi and other Jewish clergymen in the capital Tehran and that electronic devices were confiscated. There were also several arrests.
The Tehran Jewish Comittee, the umbrella organization of the Jewish Iranians, is also mentioned in the AFA report. The regime is intended to force the organization to send SMS to its members in which you are threatened with hard punishments if you contact representatives from other countries.
Since the end of the war with Israel, the regime in Tehran is said to have arrested at least 700 people. On Thursday and Friday, six people are also said to have been executed who accuse the regime connections to the Israeli secret service Mossad, reports the Israeli television station KAN.
US President Donald Trump has rejected media reports of help for Iran worth up to $ 30 billion for the possible structure of a nuclear program to generate civil energy. “Who in the fake news media is the adversity who says that President Trump wants to give the Iran $ 30 billion to build non-military nuclear systems? I have never heard of this ridiculous idea,” Trump wrote on Friday evening at his own social media platform Truth Social.
On Thursday and NBC News on Friday, CNN reported that the US government had explored possible economic incentives for Iran in return for the employment of uranium enrichment by the Iranian government in the past few days. Insiders were cited in the reports.
In a statement on Friday evening, a spokesman for the controversial aid organization GHF said in the Gaza Strip that there have been no incidents or fatalities on or in the immediate vicinity of the distribution centers. “The GHF has no knowledge of these incidents, but these accusations are too serious to ignore them, and we therefore ask Israel to examine them and publish the results promptly and transparently,” said the speaker. The explanation also states that the Israeli military has the task of granting all humanitarian organizations that are active in the Gaza Strip, including the GHF.
According to a Palestinian media report, at least eleven civilians were killed in an Israeli air raid in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that a tent city had been met for war -displaced people in the center of the city of Gaza, citing its own correspondent in the sealed coastal area. Several other people suffered injuries, it said. The report could not be checked independently at first.
