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.
“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.
“These elements, led by Western-Zionist intelligence services, sought to commit other acts of sabotage, which were foiled.”
The statement said the individuals, who it did not otherwise identify or give details on, had planned to blow up parts of
Khuzestan’s energy infrastructure.
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.
The region has also periodically suffered violent action by fighters.
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