Terrorists behind deadly attack on election ballot boxes in SE Iran captured
Iranian intelligence forces have arrested a group of terrorists behind an attack on a vehicle transporting presidential election ballot boxes in the country’s southeastern Sistan and Balouchestan province, which killed two soldiers and injured a number of others.
The provincial intelligence general directorate announced in a statement on Sunday that the attack targeted the vehicle as it was carrying the boxes out of a polling station in the Jakigur Rural District of Rask County on June 29.
According to the statement, the Iranian intelligence forces launched a full-scale and all-out operation shortly afterward to identify the terrorists both inside and outside the country and arrest them subsequently.
The forces could locate the militants’ hideouts in different parts of Sistan and Baluchestan province following numerous intricate and multi-layered operations.
The last operation was carried out at around 4 a.m. local time (0030 GMT) on July 5, as a result of which all eight elements behind the terrorist attack were captured.
Several assault rifles, bullet magazines, tactical multiband radios and a considerable amount of munitions were confiscated from the terrorists as well.
The captured terrorists were reportedly getting instructions from their masters in a neighboring country, and were preparing to carry out full-blown acts of terror in the days following Iran’s presidential election.
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