Iran delivers ‘serious blow’ to riot organization network

Iran’s intelligence apparatuses have delivered a “serious blow” to a network seeking to organize riots across the country.

The operation was conducted jointly by the country’s Intelligence Ministry and the Intelligence Organization of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), the bodies announced in a statement on Wednesday.

The operation managed to “identify and deal a blow to some members of the riot organization network” on the back of joint intelligence work carried out by the bodies’ operatives, read the statement.

The network’s members were being funded by the United States State Department and led by the Freedom House, a Washington-based so-called political advocacy group, and the Nonviolent Initiative for Democracy, a Massachusetts-based anti-Iran organization, it noted.