Tehran, YJC. Iranian border police guards have arrested 3 terrorist leaders who were trying to enter the country illegally.
The Iranian Minister of Intelligence Mahmoud Alavi announced on Wednesday
that the terrorists were tracked down by forces of the Border Guard as they
were attempting to cross into the country’s territory.
Alavi further described the 3 as leaders of major terror groups trying to enter
Iran with an intention to carry out bombings among people gathering for
religious ceenmonies, IRNA reported, citing the website of the Ministry of
Intelligence.
"The three who were so arrested were planning to conduct a suicide operation
in religious gatherings,” Alavi, who was addressing the public in the city of
Ferdows in the eastern province of South Khorasan, stated on Wednesday.
Over the past weeks, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in mosques and
other religious places to hold special ceremonies as commemoration of religious
figures.
A terrorist attack on the Seyed al-Shohada Mosque in the southern Iranian
city of Shiraz, Fars in 2008 left fourteen people killed and over a hundred
more injured. 3 men were sentenced to death following the incident as
they were convicted of committing the terrorist operation.
Iran has accused the US, UK and Israel of orchestrating such terrorist schemes
on Iranian citizens and officials. Many suspects so far arrested by security
forced have admitted to be in contact with CIA, Mossad or MI6.