Amid reports that Iranian security forces have carried out a wave of arrests in the Jewish kehilla, including Rabbanim, for alleged contacts with Israel, a resident of Iran spoke to Israel’s Channel 12, saying she witnessed the arrest of 10 Iranian Jews.

Miriam, who Channel 12 has interviewed before about life in Iran, said that she saw six Jewish women and four Jewish men being taken into custody around 1:30 a.m.

She described armed men jumping over a wall into the courtyard near her home, threatening residents, and demanding they hand over their phones. “I hid mine under the carpet as soon as I heard them,” she said.

“They took 10 people away just because they are Jewish… loading them like sheep into a car.”

According to Miriam, the six women have since been released on bail, corroborating previous reports that said that detained women were released but the men remain in custody.

(YWN’s Jerusalem desk is keeping you updated after tzeis ha’Shabbos in Israel)