Iran steps up executions, internal crackdown as war drags on

While the Iranian regime has been battling its external enemies, Israel and the United States, it has also been ramping up a deadly crackdown on those seen as the enemy within.

Mohammad Amin Biglari disappeared as anti-government protests rocked Iran in early January. His father desperately searched morgues in Tehran, the Iranian capital, for a month, fearing his son was among the thousands killed in the crackdown by authorities.

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Instead, a lawyer from the revolutionary court contacted the family and said Biglari had been arrested.

Biglari’s father was not allowed to visit him at the Ghezel Hesar prison, some 30 miles west of Tehran, a relative outside of Iran who is in contact with the family told NBC News. The relative is not being identified for security reasons.