IRGC intelligence forces bust anti-revolutionary terrorist team in southeastern Iran
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) intelligence forces have disbanded an anti-revolutionary terrorist team that had plotted to carry out assassinations in the country’s southeastern province of Kerman.
Ebrahim Hamidi, head of the provincial judiciary office, said on Saturday that members of the pro-monarchy terror team were identified and arrested following intricate surveillance operations.
The terrorists were in contact with hostile elements and foreign-based anti-Iran media outlets, and had taken a series of measures over the past year to undermine security, such as attacks on various facilities, acts of vandalism against public properties, setting city banners ablaze, distribution of anti-revolutionary leaflets, and sending video clips to foreign-based satellite television channels, Hamidi added.
The senior judiciary official highlighted that members of the terrorist team had received orders from pro-monarchy terrorist ringleaders, and were involved in armed activities.
The arrestees had plans to assassinate a provincial security force, and also target members of the morality police. The IRGC forces, however, could foil their plot and capture them, Hamidi pointed out.
Back in late September, Iranian intelligence forces thwarted a plot to carry out a string of terrorist bombing attacks in the capital Tehran, arresting dozens of elements linked with Daesh Takfiri terrorist group.
The Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced in a statement at the time that its forces had foiled a ferocious plot to carry out 30 simultaneous bombing attacks on populous areas of Tehran, and had arrested all terrorists involved in the plot.
The statement said the bombing attacks had been planned with the purpose of undermining Iran’s security, displaying a false image of instability in Iran, fomenting disappointment and terror in the society, and provoking chaos and protests exactly on the anniversary of the last year’s foreign-backed riots.
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