Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec. 25
By Umid Niayesh - Trend:
Iran's security forces have arrested three people who were planning suicide attacks, the Islamic Republic Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi said.
The people who were top members of "terrorist groups", were arrested in an undisclosed border region of the country, before their plots could've been realzied, Alavi said, the country's Fars news agency reported Dec. 25.
Alavi did not unveil further information about the location and time of the arrest as well as identities of the arrested people.
The minister said that the suicide bombers have had plans to attack religious Shia groups during mourning rituals in the capital city of Tehran last week.
Earlier in November Alavi said that the security forces have foiled a bomb plot in the holy city of Qom, during the mourning month of Moharram. The Mourning of Muharram is a set of rituals associated with Shia Islam, which takes place in Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar.
Alavi further went on to note that the intelligence forces also foiled various suicide bomb plots in different provincial centers on the Quds Day (Iran's anti-Israel celebrations), on the last Friday of the fasting month of Ramadan, which fell on July 25 this year.
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