Statement and warning from the Ministry of Intelligence on the discovery of networks and sabotage equipment for Chaharshanbe Suri
The Ministry of Intelligence issued a statement announcing the discovery of networks and sabotage equipment intended for operations on the last Wednesday night of the year, Chaharshanbe Suri.
The text of this statement is as follows
1. Identification and arrest of a 21-member team of elements affiliated with the terrorist group Mojahedin-e Khalq in Tehran
2. Identification and arrest of a cell affiliated with the terrorist groups Mojahedin-e Khalq and its network of collaborators in the holy city of Mashhad, and the discovery of 300 homemade grenades
3. Discovery of 162 wireless homemade grenades and a large quantity of raw materials for grenade production in a city in the western part of the country
4. Identification of another workshop in a city in the west of the country that, in addition to illegally storing and selling explosives, was engaged in mass production of certain explosive materials
5. Discovery of two workshops producing shrapnel-laden handmade bombs in a northwestern province of the country and the arrest of the main perpetrator and several of his accomplices
6. The dissolved terrorist group Democratic had dispatched a team with the intent of sabotage on the last Wednesday night of the year, but its members were arrested before taking any action