Daesh Suspects Arrested near Capital: Iran’s Prosecutor General
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran's Prosecutor General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri announced that a number of militants affiliated to Daesh (ISIS or ISIL) terrorist group, who had planned to sabotage rallies marking the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution, were arrested near the capital.
Speaking to reporters at a rally held in the central city of Kashan on Friday, Montazeri said undoubtedly, if it had not been for the resistance shown by Iran-backed axis of resistance, Daesh terrorists would have come to the country’s borders.
He noted that Daesh militants had hatched a major plot to commit sabotage acts in Iran as the country marks the 38th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, adding that a group of Daesh elements were arrested near Tehran a couple of days ago.
On July 4, 2016, the Iranian Intelligence Ministry had released video surveillance footage of a number of Daesh terrorists who were arrested in Tehran before carrying out a series of planned bombing raids.
On Friday, millions of people in capital Tehran, more than 1,000 other cities and towns, and in 4,000 villages, poured into the streets with flags of Iran and banners in support of the Islamic Republic.
Demonstrators hung Trump in effigy, burned the US and Israeli flags, and paid tribute to the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, under whose leadership the revolutionary movements triumphed over the despotic regime of Pahlavi on February 11, 1979.
