Security Forces foil terrorists' plot in Iran

The Iranian security forces defused the plan of a terrorist cell that sought to conduct sabotage acts against the country, Fars News Agency reports.

"The security forces' intelligence superiority during a specialized and precise operation led to discovering and foiling the plot of an anti-revolutionary terrorist grouplet to carry out explosions and terrorist acts," the intelligence ministry announced in a statement on Saturday.

The statement said the terrorist cell has a record of killing thousands of innocent Iranian people and conducting espionage operations for the foreign states, but declined to name the group.

It also mentioned that a large number of different explosive devices and equipment were discovered and seized from the terrorists.

The development came after Iranian Intelligence Minister Seyed Mahmoud Alavi announced last Monday that the country's security forces have dismantled and clamped down on 75 terrorist groups in the past three years, seizing magnetic bombs and suicide vests from them.