TEHRAN -- The intelligence
department of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said Sunday it arrested a team of saboteurs in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, who were planning violent riots and acts of vandalism.
In a statement, the IRGC said its intelligence forces detected a house in one of the cities of the province where the saboteurs were making incendiary devices and Molotov cocktails to vandalize public properties.
Three people have been arrested in the operation and handed over to the judicial authorities, it added.
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry and the Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) issued an explanatory joint statement on Friday, describing various aspects of the recent riots in the country.
The two top intelligence bodies pointed to the major role of foreign intelligence agencies, especially the CIA, in orchestrating the riots in Iran in the past weeks.
“Continuous and precise” intelligence monitoring in the past year as well as acquired documents during the recent unrest reveals “numerous examples and undeniable references of the all-out role of the American terrorist regime in designing, implementing, and maintaining” the unrest, they said.
“Based on the available information,” they said, “it has been established that preparations, ground setting, and also an important part of the executive operations of the recent riots were designed by foreign spy services in the form of a package and implemented in different ways inside the country through some groups and networks related to them.
“On the other hand, there is another important fact that in their recent operations, these services have tried to exploit some of the existing grievances in society, and even as much as possible, base their information projects on the misuse of such issues,” they said.
The intelligence services said accurate and continuous intelligence observations over the past year, as well as available documentation from the recent riots and information obtained from the enemy’s scenarios for the post-crisis phase, bear many examples and undeniable references to the comprehensive role of the terrorist American regime in the design, implementation, and continuation of the aforementioned imbroglio.
“Therefore, the basic focus of the present statement is on the role of the American mafia regime, its allies, and their infantry in the latest riots across the country in three stages, including before, during, and after the unrest.”