IRAN - 6 people arrested for sending videos top foreign media

April 15, 2026 - IRAN. 6 people arrested for sending videos top foreign media

Five citizens, including two women, were arrested in Hormozgan Province over alleged ties to a media outlet based outside the country. Separately, the police commander of Qazvin Province announced the arrest of another citizen in the city on suspicion of espionage.

According to Mehr News Agency, five citizens were arrested in Hormozgan Province. Hormozgan’s police force stated that the five individuals, three men and two women, were identified and arrested for allegedly being in contact, through Internet, with the “head of a network and hostile foreign media outlets.”

In a separate report, Modara News reported the arrest of a citizen in Qazvin. According to this report, quoting the police commander of Qazvin Province, the individual had allegedly been in contact with a “spy handler linked to hostile countries” and had facilitated the targeting of one of Qazvin’s industrial units.

https://www.en-hrana.org/six-citizens-arrested-in-hormozgan-and-qazvin-provinces/