Suicide bombers arrested in Iran
Iran’s security forces have arrested three people who were
planning suicide attacks, said Mahmoud Alavi, the Islamic Republic
Intelligence Minister.
The people, who were top members of “terrorist groups”, were
arrested in an undisclosed border region of the country, before
their plots could've been realized, Alavi said, Fars news agency
reported.
Alavi did not unveil further information about the location and
time of the arrest as well as identities of the arrested
people.
The minister said that the suicide bombers have had plans to attack
religious Shia groups during mourning rituals in the capital city
of Tehran last week.
Earlier in November Alavi said that the security forces have foiled
a bomb plot in the holy city of Qom, during the mourning month of
Moharram. The Mourning of Muharram is a set of rituals associated
with Shia Islam, which takes place in Muharram, the first month of
the Islamic calendar.
Alavi further went on to note that the intelligence forces also
foiled various suicide bomb plots in different provincial centers
on the Quds Day (Iran's anti-Israel celebrations), on the last
Friday of the fasting month of Ramadan, which fell on July 25 this
year.
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