Following a series of "complex” intelligence operations and the cooperation
shown by families of some terrorists in the provinces of Kermanshah, Kurdistan,
West Azarbaijan and Tehran, 41 elements of ISIL Wahhabi group were arrested
before being able to make a terrorist act, the Intelligence Ministry said in a
statement.
Some documents along with explosives and munitions have also been seized from
terrorists, the statement noted.
Meantime, Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alawi said over the past two days, the
ministry has identified the hideout of the perpetrators of Tehran attacks.
The place, where the terrorists had convened to plan their terrorist acts and
the picture of which appeared on social media, was identified and a number of
terrorists who were still there were arrested, Alawi said, speaking to reporters
on the sidelines of a funeral procession held on Friday for the martyrs killed
in June 7 twin terrorist attacks in Tehran,
On Wednesday morning, five terrorists launched simultaneous attacks on Iran’s
parliament building in downtown Tehran and on the mausoleum of Imam Khomeini,
south of the city.
The assailants attacked the parliament buildings in the morning. Equipped with
AK-47 assault rifles, handguns, grenades and suicide vests, the gunmen killed
security guards and ordinary people before holding people hostage in the upper
floors of the building.
They were all killed by the security forces after an operation that took several
hours.
In the other attack at the shrine of Imam Khomeini, one suicide bomber blew
himself up while the second one was killed in an exchange of gunfire.
The death toll from Wednesday’s incidents in Tehran grew to 17, while more than
40 others have been wounded.
Source: Tasnim