Iranian security forces arrest several key elements inciting riots

Tehran-Sana

Iranian security forces have arrested several key elements inciting riots and chaos during recent events in some cities of the country under the pretext of raising gasoline prices.

The assistant governor of Kurdistan for political and security affairs Hussein Khosh Iqbal said in a statement today that 50 of the main elements inciting riots during the recent events, adding that the detainees are linked to anti-revolutionary groups and the defunct monarchy.

For his part, the head of the southern province of Khorasan Ibrahim Hamidi said in a statement today that 29 of the main elements who were inciting and managing the gatherings during the recent events, adding that in the light of the investigations conducted with them were released on bail and there are currently none of them in the Governorate prisons.

For his part, the head of the province of Kerman province of southeastern Iran, Yahdollah Muwahed, said that the main elements involved in the riots in the province.

The spokesman of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran, Brigadier-General Ramadan Sharif, announced yesterday the arrest of those responsible for rioters and the recent chaos in the provinces of Alborz, Tehran and Shiraz, while the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani involved groups of the so-called "People's Mujahedeen" and the enemies of the revolution riots that Iranian cities have witnessed recently.