The ministry issued a statement on Tuesday saying that the MKO-linked operational cells of saboteurs have been smashed in Tehran, Isfahan, and Kordestan.
The statement said ten elements of the cells have been detained, adding that they were involved in terrorist activities and some mortar attacks on Iran’s administrative, military, police, and residential centers, inflicting losses and fueling terror and insecurity.
It further noted that during a series of terrorist operations, the members of those cells had thrown improvised grenades into gatherings of people, launched mortar attacks on the said centers, and were plotting to carry out many more brutal attacks.
The Intelligence Ministry said all of those terrorist activities were directly guided by the European base of the MKO terrorist group situated in Albania, adding that the operations have involved even the former members of the MKO terrorist group who had been granted amnesty or whose sentences had been commuted by the Islamic Republic in the 1980s.
The statement reiterated that weaponry and equipment used by the detainees in the terrorist operations had been seized, including mortars, grenades, materials, and devices of improvised grenades, handguns, and Molotov cocktails.
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