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Iran arrests Islamic State group member, foils attacks: Revolutionary Guards
Published in Ahram Online on 13 - 09 - 2017

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards arrested a member of Islamic State group and foiled a plan for suicide attacks, a Guards commander said on Wednesday.
Col. Amin Yamini, the Guards commander for the western Tehran suburb of Shahriar, did not say when the arrest was made but said the attacks were being planned for a 10-day Shi'ite religious holiday that begins next week.
The Islamic State group member arrested was from the Syrian branch of the militant Sunni organization and had planned to organize about 300 people to carry out suicide attacks, Yamini said, according to Basij Press, the news site for the Tehran branch of the Guards.
On June 7, Islamic State group attacked the parliament in Tehran and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, south of the capital, killing 18 people and wounding more than 40.
Iran has blamed Saudi Arabia for being behind the deadly attacks. Riyadh has denied any involvement.
The Revolutionary Guards fired several missiles at Islamic State group bases in Syria on June 18 in response to that attack.
According to Yamini, the Guards tracked the Islamic State group organizer, who had a cell phone and satellite phone, and set up a meeting with him in the western Tehran suburb of Andisheh by posing as Islamic State group members. When the person showed up, he was arrested.
Valuable information has been gleaned from his cell phone, Yamini said, according to Basij Press.


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