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Iran captures 14 Daesh members seeking to carry out terrorist attacks

Friday, 23 August 2024 9:03 AM [ Last Update: Friday, 23 August 2024 11:25 AM ]

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Iran’s Intelligence Ministry says it has arrested 14 members of the Daesh terrorist group, foiling their plots to carry out terror attacks inside the country.

In a statement released on Friday, the ministry said that it had after a series of operations identified and apprehended 14 terrorists "led by the US-Zionist grouplet called Daesh Khorasan (Daesh-K)" in four Iranian provinces of Tehran, Alborz, Fars, and Khuzestan.

Those arrested, it added, had illegally entered the Islamic Republic in the past few days with the aim of carrying out terrorist attacks.

The ministry also said that seven of the terrorists were arrested in Fars and the rest in Tehran, Alborz, and Khuzestan provinces.

The outcomes of investigations and interrogations will be published later, it noted.

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In 2014, Daesh captured large swathes of land in Iraq and Syria in lightning attacks, declaring the areas it controlled as “caliphate.”

However, Iraqi and Syrian forces, with the help of Iran, managed to reverse Daesh’s gains and ultimately liberate their countries from the terror outfit some three years later.

Still, Daesh’s remnants keep staging sporadic attacks in different countries.

The terror group claimed responsibility for the terrorist bombings in the southeastern city of Kerman on January 3, 2024, that killed 89 people and injured 284 others.

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