Iranian MP warns against trusting ceasefire with Israel

Iran’s cyber police chief warned citizens on Friday to avoid casual discussions of local events or conditions with relatives, saying even ordinary phone calls could be subject to surveillance.

“Even routine conversations with family inside or outside the country may be monitored,” said Vahid Majid, head of Iran’s cyber police (FATA), according to Tasnim News Agency. “If someone asks about your area or local incidents, your safest response is: ‘I don’t know.’”

Iran’s highly enriched uranium stockpile was relocated from its key Fordow facility ahead of last weekend’s US airstrikes, according to preliminary intelligence assessments shared with European capitals, the Financial Times reported on Friday.

The move, if confirmed, would suggest that Iran retained much of its 408kg stockpile of uranium enriched to 60% purity — close to weapons-grade — despite US President Donald Trump’s assertion that the strikes had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program.

EU officials cited by the FT said Iran’s stockpile was likely distributed across multiple sites and not concentrated at Fordow at the time of the attack. One early intelligence report indicated “extensive damages, but not full structural destruction” at the underground Fordow facility near Qom.

The US has not provided definitive intelligence to European allies on the current status of Iran’s nuclear capabilities, and Washington’s future diplomatic direction remains unclear, EU officials told the FT.

Talks between European ministers and Iranian officials had taken place just before the strikes, but follow-up diplomacy is stalled. “We’re in a volatile place where the E3 is waiting on the US, who appear to themselves be waiting on the Israelis,” one source said.

More than 130 Iranian nationals have been arrested across the United States in the past week in a nationwide enforcement operation, Fox News reported on Thursday, citing multiple federal sources.

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“All unauthorized foreigners must exit the country,” the national police command was instructed, according to Iranian state media.

“Any home or property rented to Afghans will have its lease annulled and the property sealed and confiscated,” Border police chief Brigadier General Ahmad-Ali Goudarzi warned.

Afghans targeted in phone seizures after ceasefire

The directive follows a wider security sweep across Iran, with Afghan migrants increasingly targeted for alleged ties to Israel.

According to Afghanistan International, Iranian police in multiple cities have been confiscating Afghan migrants’ mobile phones, claiming suspicion of “communication with Israel.”

Eyewitnesses told Afghanistan International that plainclothes and uniformed officers have raided workplaces and migrant housing, issuing receipts for seized phones and telling migrants they could retrieve them after weeks.

Migrants, even those with valid residency, reported being stopped at checkpoints or unable to travel to work out of fear of arrest.

Hundreds detained, mass deportations underway

Iran has arrested around 700 people on suspicion of collaborating with Israel in recent weeks. State media has broadcast forced confessions, including from two individuals identified as Afghan nationals from Badakhshan. The circumstances of the confessions remain unclear.

Tehran’s provincial governor, Mohammad Sadegh Motamedian, said arrests and deportations of Afghan migrants have increased three to fourfold. Taliban officials in Herat said over 30,000 Afghans were deported or returned voluntarily on a single day this week.

Taliban authorities have warned of a looming humanitarian crisis in western Afghanistan due to the rapid influx.

Several Jewish community members, including rabbis and senior figures in Tehran and Shiraz, have been arrested in Iran on suspicion of cooperating with Israel, Ynet reported on Friday.

According to activists cited in the report, Iranian authorities raided homes, confiscated phones and computers, and detained multiple individuals. While women were reportedly released, the men—including religious leaders—remain in custody.