IRGC Disbands Terrorist Team in Southeastern Iran

TEHRAN (defapress)- The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) dismantled a team of terrorists who intended to launch a suicide attack against a border checkpoint in Sistan and Balouchestan province in Southeastern Iran.

News ID: 69160

Date: 12 March 2018 - 15:00

"Last night, members of the terrorist grouplets and armed outlaws wanted to launch a suicide attack on one of the IRGC Ground Force's border checkpoints in Saravan region of Sistan and Balouchestan province, using a vehicle carrying ammunition and explosives, but they failed due to the vigilance and timely reaction of the security forces," Public Relations Department of the IRGC Ground Force's Quds base announced in a statement on Monday.

It added that two terrorists were killed, noting that one of the outlaws who had failed to approach the border checkpoint detonated his explosive vest and died on the scene.

The statement said that two of the Basiji (volunteer) forces stationed in the checkpoint were also wounded in clashes with the terrorists.

In a relevant development in January, the Iranian security and intelligence forces seized two large caches of explosives and powerful bombs belonging to separatist terrorist groups.

According to an Iranian intelligence ministry statement, the explosives and bombs were supposed to be detonated in populated areas as part of two terrorist plots, one of them directly designed and led by Saudi Arabia.

The statement added that in one operation, security forces discovered no less than 23 remote controlled bombs that terrorists were going to use in order to wreak havoc in the Eastern parts of the country.

Terrorists had managed to carry the bombs over Iran's Eastern borders and sneak them into the country using help from Saudi intelligence agencies, according to the statement.

The ministry said another shipment of explosives complete with bomb-making equipment were seized from a terrorist group in the Western province of Kurdistan.

The materials, captured from a "separatist" militant group in the border town of Marivan, included military-grade material such as TNT, C4, explosive kits and electronic charges.

The statement did not reveal further details about the identities of the terrorists or their possible targets.