Photo: AHMAD AL-RUB / Reforma Agency
Iran announced this Sunday that it foiled a terrorist attack by the Islamic State (IS) that was planning a simultaneous attack with 30 bombs in Tehrann, in an operation in which 28 people were arrested. The Iranian Intelligence Ministry stated that the aim was to carry out the attacks during the first anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death on September 16, 2023 to “incite unrest.”
The 28 detainees “were part of ISIS” and some of them had spent time in “Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraqi Kurdistan.”, reported the Intelligence of the Persian country, according to the Tasnim agency. The arrests occurred in recent days in various operations deployed in the provinces of Tehran, Alborz and West Azerbaijan.
Authorities seized explosives, detonators, American-made firearms and funds in foreign currency after attacking “several terrorist bases and safe houses.” In the action, two agents were injured, the ministry detailed, adding that the attackers’ plan was to explode the bombs in “densely populated” areas.
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series of attacks
The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for several attacks on Iranian soil, the last of which was the attack on a mausoleum in the southern city of Shiraz in which 15 people died in October 2022. Tehran also accused IS of the attack on the same mausoleum. of Shiraz in the middle of last August, which cost the lives of two people.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has blamed the West for fomenting and financing the protests sparked by Amini’s death in 2022 while accusing the United States of creating the Islamic State. The first anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death was marked amid strong repression and a huge deployment of security forces, and only timid protests took place.
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