TEHRAN -- A senior Iranian judicial official said Monday security forces have dismantled a terror group tied to the occupying regime of Israel, which was planning to conduct assassination operations in the country.
Ali Abdollahi, the head of the judiciary’s intelligence department, said 14 members of the terror group were arrested by intelligence forces in Iran’s West Azarbaijan province.
The terrorists, he said, were planning to identify certain individuals and assassinate them.
The Zionist regime has a long record of sabotage operations in Iran, mainly targeting its nuclear facilities.
The regime has the blood of several senior Iranian nuclear scientists on its hands.
Meanwhile, Iran’s presidential office on Monday dismissed rumors of a hacking attack against its website after it briefly went down.
In a statement, the presidency said its website, president.ir, was undergoing maintenance as a new overhauled version was unveiled.
“Las week, the new version of the website was unveiled, and today it was made temporarily unavailable by the technical team of the website as a security improvement project was being completed,” it said.