[citation needed] Radan is well known for his actions regarding the Islamic dress code, the distribution of illegal drugs, and controlling gangs.

In 2009, he opposed the Iranian Green Movement and was sanctioned by the United States, and later the European Union, for human rights abuses.

These individuals were sometimes beaten on camera in front of neighborhood inhabitants or forced to wear hanging watering cans used for lavatory ablutions around their necks.

According to his parents, he has never had any criminal record or background of illegal activities and had never been arrested or jailed before, omitting the 1999 riots.

[6][11][12] In 2011, Radan traveled to Damascus to support Syrian security services in their crackdown on protests in Syria.