Iranian Intelligence Foils ’Biggest Terror Plot’, Seizes Explosives

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Iranian intelligence officials had broken up "the biggest terrorist plot" to ever target Tehran and other provinces in the Islamic Republic, the country's state television reported on Monday.

According to reports, the authorities had arrested the perpetrators over the last few days, while the attacks were plotted for the holy month of Ramadan.

However, the reports didn't identify those arrested, though it is not clear if this case involves the extremist group that holds territory in Iraq and Syria .

"Wherever it may occur in Iran, any suspicious move will be swiftly detected; this is thanks to the presence of the people and capable and experienced organizations," the country's Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Shamkhani said, as quoted by the broadcaster on Monday.

Radical extremists had planned a major terrorist attack in Tehran and other regions of Iran, the country's Ministry of Intelligence and Security [MOIS] said in a statement on Monday.

"One of the major terrorist plots by Takfiri-Wahhabi groups who have been planning to plant a bomb in Tehran and other provinces, has been prevented," the ministry said in the statement. Large amounts of explosives and bombs have been seized during operations to apprehend intruders, the statement read.

According to the statement, the Iranian authorities had launched an investigation with respect to those detained during the operations.

In May, Iran's Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi announced that 20 "terrorist groups" that planned to detonate bombs and cause insecurity across the country had been dismantled. It's unclear whether that included the plot announced Monday by state television.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team