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Authorities made arrests all over Iran and seized 43 powerful remote-controlled bombs among other weapon.
By: WIN Staff – worldisraelnews.com
Iran’s intelligence ministry on Monday claimed that the regime had dismantled a “terror network” working for Israel, adding that it was the largest ever cell busted in the Islamic Republic.
The arrests took place last week all over Iran, the country’s state-affiliated IRNA media reported, but did not mention how many arrests were made.
Authorities also seized 43 powerful remote-controlled bombs among other weapons.
Members of the network were in contact with individuals in various European countries, including Denmark and the Netherlands. Those arrested were charged with planning attacks in various cities throughout Iran, including Tehran, Isfahan and Kerman.
The attacks included a plan to blow up communication towers as well as the gravesite of Gen. Qasem Soleimani, commander of the elite Quds Force and the mastermind behind Iran’s proxy wars in the region who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in neighboring Iraq in January 2020.
Meanwhile a day earlier, Iran took the opportunity to mock the turmoil in Israel caused by the judicial reform, using Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s health complications as fodder for its jibes.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani posted a satirical comment on Twitter in Farsi: “The Zionist regime’s PM’s heart seems to have a battery these days, as per news reports,” he tweeted, referencing the recent report of Netanyahu’s pacemaker surgery following a serious heart incident.
“However, it is evident that the internal crisis plaguing the Zionist entity is far more profound than the PM’s health concerns,” Kanaani further jabbed.
In related developments, WIN also reported on Monday that seventeen wanted terrorists were captured and transferred to security forces for further interrogation during overnight raids throughout Judea and Samaria in a brigade-level operation, the IDF announced Monday.
Soldiers, Border Police troops and Shabak intelligence forces worked together on the arrests. They also found and confiscated various military equipment and weapons, including 10 explosive devices in the Nur a-Shams refugee camp in northern Samaria that were neutralized. Palestinians threw explosives at the troops, who returned fire and registered several hits, according to the IDF report.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror group that is financed directly by Iran posted a video online of a supposed IED device of theirs exploding next to an armored bulldozer in the Nur a-Shams camp.
In other villages, Palestinians threw rocks and fireworks at the Israeli forces, who responded either by firing in the air or using crowd-dispersal means to bring an end to the clashes.
No injuries were reported on the Israeli side.
Dozens of Palestinians have been arrested this month alone for their participation in terrorist activities, joining hundreds of others who have been captured since the beginning of the year in the IDF’s continuous ongoing anti-terror operations.
The IDF has had to contend not only with terrorists belonging to the Palestinian Authority’s Fatah movement, but also with Hamas and PIJ, which have gained overwhelming popularity in the PA-administered areas of Judea and Samaria, known as Areas A and B.
For example, nearly half of the residents of Jenin — where the IDF ran the two-day counterterrorism Operation Home and Garden earlier this month — say they support either Hamas or the PIJ.