Intelligence official: 2 Takfiri terrorists arrested in western Iran

A senior Iranian intelligence official announced that the country's security forces have detained two Takfiri terrorists in the western province of Hamedan, who planned to carry out operations in Tehran.

"We succeeded in identifying and arresting two terrorists who were members of Takfiri and Daesh terrorist groups in two operations," the director-general of intelligence ministry's office in the western province of Hamedan, Abtahi, told reporters on Saturday night.

"The captured terrorists were trying to move to Tehran," he added, but did not reveal any further detail.

In relevant remarks last month, Iranian Intelligence Minister Seyyed Mahmoud Alavi said his forces discovered and dismantled a large bomb-making workshop of the terrorists during the parliamentary election days in February.

Stressing the Iranian forces' high vigilance and capability in war against terrorism, Alavi said the sound of explosions is heard in different parts of the world from the regional states to the European countries, while Iran enjoys unique security due to the supremacy and control of its intelligence forces.

EA