Tehran 0
6 May 2020

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry announced that it had “managed to monitor and eliminate two terrorist teams, affiliated with separatist groups, that had entered the country from neighboring countries to carry out acts of terrorism”. The ministry claimed to have made sixteen arrests and arms seizures during the operation in western Iran, and said “the leader of this terrorist group is residing in Europe and being supported by an Arab reactionary country”.

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