{{Iran’s Intelligence Ministry has arrested people planning bomb attacks with the support of Western and Israeli spy agencies in the oil-producing province of Khuzestan, state television reported.}}<\/p>\n
“In the last few days a number of terrorist elements connected to foreign intelligence services … were identified and arrested along with a significant amount of explosives materials and items sent from a country in the Persian Gulf area,” the Intelligence Ministry statement said, according to Iranian state television’s website on Friday.<\/p>\n
“These elements, led by Western-Zionist intelligence services, sought to commit other acts of sabotage, which were foiled.”<\/p>\n
The statement said the individuals, who it did not otherwise identify or give details on, had planned to blow up parts of
\nKhuzestan’s energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n
Khuzestan, in Iran’s southwest, is home to a large population of ethnic Arab Iranians, also known as Ahwazis, who have long complained of and occasionally protest against economic deprivation and systematic discrimination.<\/p>\n
The region has also periodically suffered violent action by fighters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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