Iran's Intelligence Ministry Says It Dismantled a Separatist Cell: Five Arrested, Three Arms Smugglers Also Held
Iran's Ministry of Intelligence announced on November 11 that it had dismantled a separatist cell, arresting five people it described as terrorists, and had separately arrested three arms smugglers.
According to Iranian media reports, the ministry said the five were arrested in a coordinated operation involving its offices in Kermanshah, Alborz and Tehran provinces, and accused them of preparing attacks in those three provinces under the direction of individuals linked to U.S. and Israeli spy agencies. The ministry did not release the names of those arrested or further operational details.
The ministry also said three members of an arms-smuggling team were arrested while attempting to enter Iran from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, and that authorities seized 50 handguns and 100 magazines from them, which the ministry described as arms and military ammunition smuggled in for terrorist operations.
The accusations come from a unilateral announcement by Iran's Intelligence Ministry and have not been independently verified.
Source: Iran Ministry of Intelligence
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Photo: 伊朗德黑兰Azadi塔（资料图）。图：Bernard Gagnon，CC BY-SA 4.0，经维基共享资源 / The Azadi Tower in Tehran, Iran (file photo). Photo by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
