Iran security forces arrest four members of suspected ISIS cell
Security forces in southwest Iran have arrested four suspected ISIS operatives who were planning attacks, Reuters reported, citing Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi.
“An ISIS team of four was arrested last night in Zabjan. The head of this team was someone whose brother was in ISIS and was killed in Syria by our forces,” he said, as quoted by the source.
“This person wants to establish a group in Iran to join ISIS. The group had [planned] some terrorist attacks, but they were arrested before the operation,” Alavi added.
It is noted, that under ISIS's ultra-hardline Sunni Muslim ideology, Shiites are considered apostates. Last year, its members carried out attacks on the parliament in Tehran and the mausoleum of the founder of Iran's revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, killing at least 18 people. Tehran executed eight Sunni Kurds earlier this month for their involvement in the attack in June 2017.