You have commented 338 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
'Biggest terrorist plot' EVER to target Iran has been foiled
2016-06-21
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Iranian intelligence officials have foiled 'the biggest terrorist plot' to ever target Tehran and other provinces across the country, state TV claimed today.

Several suspects have been locked away
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
and are under interrogation over the plot after agents seized ammunition and bombs, the report said.

It's thought they had planned a co-ordinated bombing attack including suicide bombs across the nation, according to TV reports attributed to Iran's Intelligence Ministry.

Iranian intelligence officials have foiled 'the biggest terrorist plot' to ever target Tehran (picture, file image) and other provinces in the Islamic Theocratic Republic, the country's state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
reported today

The Fars and Isna news agencies quoted Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, as saying the attack was planned in the holy month of Ramadan.

The official IRNA news agency quoted the ministry as saying: 'One of the biggest takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
-Wahhabi terrorist plots was discovered and foiled,' using terms applied by Iran to Sunni turban groups

They added: 'A series of kabooms prepared in various areas deep inside the country and especially in Tehran and some other provinces... were foiled, the forces of Evil were arrested and a number of ready-made bombs were recovered.'

The agency also said the attack was supposed to come on the anniversary of the death of the Prophet Muhammad's wife, Khadija, on Thursday.

The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, told the ISNA news agency the plot included plans for 'suicide kabooms in Tehran'.
Posted by:Fred

00:00