Daesh Cell Dismantled in Western Iran After Clashes

Date: 27 January 2018 - 21:52

News ID: ۴۹۳۸۶

TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and Iranian intelligence forces have captured several members of a Daesh team in western Iran in a joint operation.
The public relations department of IRGC’s Najaf Base announced on Saturday that almost all members of a 21-strong Takfiri terrorist cell were arrested after armed clashes with Iranian security forces.
The statement said the clashes were continuing with the terrorists who had entered the country through the western borders.
Iran's Intelligence Ministry said earlier this month that Iranian security forces had dismantled a terrorist group and arrested its members in the country’s northwestern province of West Azarbaijan.
The ministry said in a statement that the terrorist group "which had infiltrated into Iran with the aim of fueling” a wave of protest over rising prices were put under surveillance in the city of Piranshahr.
The IRGC also dismantled a terrorist group in October in an operation in West Azarbaijan.
IRGC ground forces launched the operation after receiving information that a terrorist team of four had infiltrated the Chaldoran region of the province and had killed two locals.
Iran has arrested dozens of terrorists since twin terrorist attacks in the Iranian capital of Tehran in June 2017.
Last June, gunmen mounted almost simultaneous assaults on Iran’s parliament and the mausoleum of the late founder of the Islamic Republic Imam Khomeini. Daesh claimed responsibility for the strikes. The twin attacks killed 17 people and injured over 50 more.