DUBAI — Authorities in Iran have neutralized 30 bombs meant to go off concurrently in Tehran and detained 28 terrorists linked to Islamic State, Iran’s Tasnim news company reported on Sunday, citing the intelligence ministry.
“Some of the members are of Islamic State (IS) and the perpetrators have a history of being affiliated with Takfiri groups in Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Kurdistan region of Iraq,” Iran’s intelligence ministry added in a press release.
The militant group has claimed a number of assaults in Iran, together with lethal twin bombings in 2017 that focused Iran’s parliament and the tomb of the Islamic Republic’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
More lately, IS claimed duty for an assault on a Shia shrine final October, the place 15 individuals had been killed within the southwestern metropolis of Shiraz. — Reuters
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