Iran Disbands Israeli-Backed Terror Network in 4 Provinces
The Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced that the country’s security forces have in various provinces dismantled a large Zionist-affiliated terror group planning to carry out sabotage operations in Iran.
The intelligence ministry released a statement on Wednesday, saying the country’s security agents had earlier detained 14 terrorists and discovered 43 powerful bombs. Other cells affiliated with the same terrorist organization were targeted in several Iranian provinces, it added.
The ministry noted it has identified a large Zionist terrorist network in four Iranian provinces, cracking down on the group and capture several militants.
The terrorists were arrested in four provinces of Khuzestan, Mazandaran, Kermanshah and Sistan and Baluchistan, the statement read.
In late July, the Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced that the country’s security agents have disbanded a terrorist team sponsored by the Israeli spy agency Mossad that was planning to explode the tomb of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in Kerman province.
The intelligence ministry said in a statement that security forces have nabbed members of a “extensive terrorist network”, who were planning to carry out numerous terrorist attacks across the country.
The terrorists were connected via “terror circles in Denmark and the Netherlands” to the Israeli spy agency, the statement added.
The intelligence ministry declared that the terrorists planned sabotage activities in the six Iranian provinces of Tehran, Kerman, Esfahan, Kohgilouyeh and Boyer Ahmad, Kurdistan and Mazandaran.
The Israeli-backed elements planned to launch attacks during the mourning month of Muharram, but were captured before “entering [their] extensive… operational phase”.
They also had plots to attack popular gathering places, including Muharram mourning ceremonies, fueling stations, power pylons, and natural gas plants to disrupt domestic and export supplies, the statement read.
The detainees planned to bomb, among other places, the burial place of Lieut. Gen. Soleimani in his birthplace of Kerman, according to the statement.
Forty three bombs with high destructive power were confiscated from the terrorists, including remote-controlled ones and projectile ones that had been meant to be used at mourning processions and ceremonies, it said.
Other weapons, including “tools that are merely used in street riots”, were also taken in.
The statement added the terrorists had formerly carried out a number of harmful operations in order for their employers in Denmark and the Netherlands to assess their capabilities.
They had filmed and photographed those activities and had forwarded the images to “terrorist media in Europe and the US”. Those preliminary operations included hurling Molotov cocktails at governmental buildings, and setting fire to banks, ATM machines, buses, communications antenna, etc.
