28 Mar 2024
Saturday 8 September 2018 - 09:20
Story Code : 318681

Iran says killed 13 terrorists, arrested 12 in August



Press TV - Iran's security forceskilled 13 terrorists and arrested 12 more in three separate operations in western parts of the country last month, the IntelligenceMinistry said on Friday.

The operations were carried out in Kermanshah and Kurdistan provinces, it said, addingthe terrorists were linked to adversarial countries who were struck before managing to take any action.

On August 16, as many as 12 agents and people linked to earlier assassination of Major Hassan Maleki, the chief of the Traffic Police of Kermanshahs Ravansar County, were arrested.

On August 25, another terroristoutfit seeking sabotage acts in Iranwas disbanded in an operation that killed two of the terrorists and injured another, the Intelligence Ministry added.

A number of Kalashnikov rifles and grenades, as well as communication equipment, and an undisclosed amount of cash have been seized from the two terror outfits.

Also last month, Irans Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) disbanded a team of terrorists on the countrys border with Iraq, killing 11 of its members. The terrorists were ambushed as they were trying to infiltrate the country from the West Azerbaijan Provinces Oshnaviyeh County.

Earlier in the year, the Corps prevented a similar infiltration attempt from Iraq's Kurdistan region. The IRGC subsequently warned the northern Iraqi territory to stay wary about terrorist movements within its borders to prevent potential spillover into the Islamic Republic.

Persistently on the lookout against potential intruders, Iranian forces regularly engage gunmen, gang members, Kurdish militants, and terrorists on the countrys western and eastern border areas.

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