According to reports received by Avatoday, Sajjad Soleimani, Director-General of the Inspection Office of Kermanshah Municipality, has been arrested without a court warrant by agents of the Islamic Republic’s Intelligence Organization and transferred to prison.
His arrest reportedly took place under opaque circumstances, and no information has been released regarding his charges or place of detention.
Kermanshah is one of the largest cities in Iranian Kurdistan.
Sajjad Soleimani previously served as Mayor of District 2 of Kermanshah and later headed the municipality’s Waste Management Department.
Notably, he is the brother of Adel Soleimani, the recently detained Mayor of District 1, and Bahrām Soleimani, the Deputy Governor for Political and Security Affairs of Kermanshah Province.
The simultaneous arrests of multiple members of the same influential family have once again exposed the deeply entrenched nepotism and mafia-like patronage networks within the Islamic Republic’s administrative system — where key positions are divided among relatives and loyalists, and corruption has effectively become a family enterprise.
While ordinary residents of Kermanshah struggle with unemployment, inflation, and collapsing urban services, the city’s leadership remains entangled in embezzlement, backroom deals, and multi-billion-rial corruption scandals.
Analysts of Kurdish affairs believe that Sajjad Soleimani’s detention is likely part of an internal power purge rather than a genuine anti-corruption campaign. In a system built on corruption, they argue, such arrests represent merely a reshuffling of insiders — not the pursuit of justice.
