TEHRAN, April 11 (UPI) -- Iran's Intelligence Ministry said Tuesday a sophisticated Israeli terror network had been uncovered and disbanded.
The ministry said in a statement Iranian security forces "have discovered one of the biggest terror and sabotage networks of the Quds Occupying Regime [Israel] and protected cells of its operatives, and arrested groups of criminal terrorists and mercenaries cooperating with them," the semi-official Fars news agency said.
The ministry said the arrests capped an investigation in several provinces near the country's borders as well as in central Iran.
The cell members were on the verge of launching attacks, the ministry said, adding an undisclosed number of operatives were arrested, and bombs, machine guns, hand guns and silencers, as well as telecommunication equipment, were confiscated.
The ministry said additional details would be revealed in the future.
