Iran foils a major ‘terror plot’

Iran’s intelligence ministry said Monday it had thwarted a major terror plot to carry out bomb attacks in the capital Tehran and other parts of the country, state media reported.
“One of the biggest takfiri terrorist plots was discovered and foiled,” the official IRNA news agency quoted the ministry as saying, using terms applied by Iran to radical groups.
“A series of bomb attacks prepared in various areas deep inside the country and especially in Tehran and some other provinces... were foiled, the terrorists were arrested and a number of ready-made bombs were recovered,” it said.
No more details were provided. The ministry said they were interrogating the suspects and more information would come following investigations “both inside and outside the country.”
The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, told the ISNA news agency the plot included plans for “suicide attacks in Tehran.”
An increased police presence in Tehran in November and December — with armed security forces guarding subway stations and other public areas in Tehran — raised concerns that an attack was possible. But the capital’s police chief, Hossein Sajedinia, said the presence was only part of “counter-terrorism drills.”
Iranian forces clashed with militants last week on the country’s northwestern and southeastern borders, leaving several dead.

Source: Arab News