Book 'im, Mahmoud!
dozens of people with links to terrorist groups, said the country's intelligence minister on Tuesday, adding that Tehran has faced serious security challenges since joining the Syrian war.
Mahmoud Alavi, Iran's intelligence minister told news hounds at a presser in Tehran that more than 14 people were arrested in the country's southern Dezful city who had attacked a Shiite religious ceremony.
He added that "10 other members of a terrorist group" who were active in Iran's eastern Sistan and Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
as well as Tehran were also picked up by the security forces.
According to Alavi the security forces had stopped around 20 persons at Iran's borders en route to Iraq and Syria.
The intelligence minister said that a raid on a terrorist cell in the city of Sousangard had led to serious confrontations against the security forces with casualties on both sides.
He accused "some backward countries in the region" of supporting the "terrorists".
Alavi told news hounds that due to Iran and Russia's participation in the war in Syria its security forces were facing serious pressure from what he called terrorist groups.
Alavi praised Iran's vigilant security forces for stopping all terrorist attacks.
"While in countries like Tunisia, Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, Kuwait, La Belle France and
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
bombings have taken place and people bit the dust, the vigilance of Imam's unknown soldiers have foiled all terrorist targets in Iran," he was quoted by IRNA news agency as saying.