Company security forces thwart Iran pipeline attack plot

TEHRAN, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- The governor of Iran's southern Abadan province said an oil company's security forces halted a plot to bomb a pipeline.

The security forces "vigilantly discovered and thwarted a bombing plot against Abadan-Mahshahr oil pipeline on Saturday evening," Gov. Bahram Ilkhaszadeh told the semiofficial Fars News Agency.

Fars provided no further details about the incident in its report Sunday.

A refinery associated with the pipeline was the target of an insurgent attack in 2005, Fars said.

Abadan province is near the Persian Gulf.