Tehran-Sana
Today, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard announced that it had thwarted an attempt to carry out bombing operations in the city of Tabriz, the center of the northwestern province of East Azerbaijan, coinciding with the recent riots.
The intelligence service of the "Ashura" Corps of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement that "when illegal gatherings and riots were being organized, (hypocritical agents and supporters of the monarchy) tried to carry out detonations with improvised explosive devices in some areas of the city of Tabriz in order to target citizens and take advantage of these attacks. gatherings as much as possible.
The statement added that "in light of the vigilance of the mobilization intelligence, the improvised explosive devices and explosive materials were discovered and the involved elements were arrested."
In a related context, Iranian security forces arrested today a number of ISIS terrorist elements during protests in West Azerbaijan Province.
Earlier today, the commander of the border guards in East Azerbaijan Province announced that members of a terrorist cell had been detected and arrested by the border guards in the city of Khadaavrin.