Iran foils sabotage acts, makes arrests in southeast

The Iranian security forces have managed to arrest a group of saboteurs in the southeastern border city of Khash in the province of Sistan and Baluchestan.

Khash Governor Mohammad Akbar Chakerzehi told IRNA on Wednesday that the group was seeking to carry out acts of terror and sabotage against police and security centers.

According to the official, the saboteurs had dug a underground passageway of tens of meters long at a depth of 20 meters inside a house near the target places.

Iranian forces have recently engaged in clashes with terror groups, thwarting their terrorist activities on the border and within the country, arresting several of them and confiscating large amounts of explosives and bomb-making materials.

On July 12, Iran said it had arrested at least five people who had planned terror attacks across the country.

Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi said those arrested were affiliated with terrorist groups and intended to carry out their plots during the Laylat al-Qadr (the Night of Destiny) (June 24, 26, 28) and International Quds Day (July 1), but “they were identified and arrested one after another in different cities.”

“These groups are mostly linked to the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group,” he added.

On July 7, IRGC forces also killed two more outlaws affiliated with counter-revolutionary groups in the country’s western province of Kordestan.

In June, a police officer and five members of the so-called Jaish ul-Adl terror group were killed in the Khash region in the province of Sistan and Baluchestan.

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry also thwarted a Takfiri-Wahhabi plot to stage attacks in Iran’s major cities, including the capital city of Tehran, last month.

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