28 Mar 2024
Thursday 14 September 2017 - 15:04
Story Code : 275735

Iran claims it foiled major ISIS plot ahead of holy month

Al-Monitor- IransIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps(IRGC) has announced that a member of theIslamic State(IS) who was seeking to organize a new series of attacks has been arrested in Tehran province.


Col. Amin Yamini, the IRGC commander in Shahriar, a suburb of the capital, Tehran, said Sept. 13 that a member of Ajnad Al-Sham, the Syrian branch of IS, has been detained andwas planning to organize 300 terrorists to carry out suicide attacks during the holy month of Muharram.

Mu?arram is the first month of the Islamic calendar and startsOct. 1. During this holy month, Shiites in Iran hold memorial ceremoniesto mourn the death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the prophet of Islam, who was martyred by the Umayyad Caliph Yazid in the Battle of Karbala in 680 A.D.

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