TEHRAN - An official with the General Intelligence Department of the southern Iranian province of Fars has offered some details about the security operation after the terrorist attack on Shah Cheragh shrine in the provincial capital Shiraz that left over a dozen people dead.
The official shed light on the country’s nonstop efforts in the fight against terror groups, revealing that security agents have thwarted 200 terrorist operations since 2014.
A counter-terrorism director of the department stated that 42 people were captured in the immediate aftermath of the incident for providing logistics and support to the terrorists.
The step prevented the occurrence of nine similar attacks in the country, he further noted.
The official, identified by media by as Kheirandish, added intelligence agencies have defused some 200 bombing plots in the country since 2014 when the terrorist group of Daesh launched a campaign to directly target Iran.
Back in late October, a heavily-armed assailant martyred 15 people and wounded 19 others in an attack on Shah Cheragh, as pilgrims were visiting the holy site.
Iranian officials say Tehran will surely bring to justice
all masterminds and perpetrators behind the Shiraz terror attack.
In early November, Iran’s Intelligence Ministry confirmed that security agents have arrested 26 Takfiri terrorists involved in the fatal shooting in Shah Cheragh holy shrine, and added that the militants are non-Iranians from Azerbaijan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan.
The terrorists have been arrested in the provinces of Fars, Tehran, Alborz, Kerman, Qom and Khorasan Razavi, the statement added, noting that a number of others have been caught as they were trying to flee the country from the Eastern borders.
The ministry also stated that a number of those terrorists were planning another terrorist attack in the southeastern city of Zahedan.
Tehran has denounced the silence of the so-called Western advocates of human rights over terror attacks in Iran which led to the martyrdom and injury of several civilians, and further blasted them for inciting and encouraging terrorism in the country.