Iran’s Intelligence Ministry announced the arrest of the leader of ASMLA (Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of al-Ahwaz), what it described as a “terrorist group… directly supported by the Saudi intelligence services and the Zionist regime [ie, Israel] [that] has been managing terrorist operations in Iran”. On 18 November, the ministry released what it described as “some documents and correspondence of the ASMLA with the Saudi intelligence agencies”.