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Intelligence Ministry reports 79 confrontations with terrorists in 45 days
Dozens of terrorists, their supporters and suppliers of weapons and ammunition were arrested during 45 days of operations, it added.
The ministry noted that 560 types of weapons, 41,895 war cartridges, 9 bombs and significant amounts of explosives were also confiscated.
It said Daesh terrorists hatched plots to infiltrate into the country and carry out terror acts during the funeral processions held for late Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and their associates who were killed in a tragic helicopter crash in May.
The terrorists also sought to carry out acts of sabotage during two rounds of Iran’s presidential election, it added.
However, the ministry detained the terrorists who had entered the country to conduct terror attacks mainly in the provinces of Tehran, Alborz, Qazvin, Khorasan Razavi, Fars, Sistan and Baluchestan, Hormuzgan and Bushehr.
According to the statement, a number of terrorists were killed in Iran’s eastern border areas before entering the country.
It also pointed to miscalculation of the anti-Iran Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group, which sought to sow insecurity in Iran, and said six operational cells linked to the MKO were identified and all the terrorists were arrested. Workshops for the production of handmade launchers were also seized.
The statement added that the security forces have detained one of the main culprits behind two terrorist blasts in the southeastern city of Kerman earlier this year, identifying him as Abdullah Quetta.
At least 103 people were killed and 211 more injured in twin terrorist explosions near the burial site of Iran’s anti-terror figure Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in Kerman on January 3.
It added that the intelligence obtained from Quetta has played a leading role in uncovering many Takfiri conspiracies, identifying other major elements involved in the plot and discovering their hideouts in regional countries.
Meanwhile, Kazem Gharibabadi, secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights, said on Saturday that Iran has listed the names of 120 terrorists and has asked the neighboring Iraq to extradite them to the country.