Mastermind behind Tehran twin attacks killed: Intelligence Ministry
TEHRAN (Basirat) : The Iranian Intelligence Ministry has announced that the mastermind behind the Tehran terrorist attacks has been killed.
During a televised interview on Saturday, Iranian Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi
said that the terrorist commander was killed earlier in the day by intelligence
forces.
He noted that the terrorist had fled the country following the ensuing security
operations after the attack, but was killed with the cooperation of friendly
foreign intelligence services.
At least 17 people were killed and 52 others injured in Tehran on Wednesday when
gunmen mounted almost simultaneous assaults on Iran’s Parliament and the
Mausoleum of the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini. The Daesh
terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attacks.
After offering condolences to the families of the attacks victims, Alavi
stressed that over the past few months the country’s intelligence forces had
neutralized over 25 terrorist cells.
He added that the large number of terrorist operations thwarted by Iran had
pushed the terrorists into engaging in the Wednesday attacks.
Members of the Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) secure the area
outside the Iranian parliament during an attack on the complex in the capital
Tehran on June 7, 2017. (Photo by AFP)
Alavi also noted that in a recent intelligence raid a large amount of automatic
weapons and grenade launchers were obtained from a terrorist group.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Police chief Hossein Ashtari has announced that a group of
some 60 suspects has also been detained near Tehran in relation to the terrorist
attacks.
SOURCE: PRESSTV