Alwaght- Iranian forces have killed 23 terrorists in the country’s northwest provinces of Kordestan and West Azerbaijan on Saturday.
Brigadier General Majid Arjmandfar, a commander of Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), said Iran has dismantled two terrorist groups, killing nearly two dozen of their elements in clashes, according to Press TV.
They were among five terror groups in total operating in northwestern Iran with the aim of destabilizing the country, he added.
The Iranian troops also engaged the remaining terror groups, inflicting losses on them and forcing their elements to flee the scene, Arjmandfar noted, adding IRGC forces inflicted heavy damage on their bases near the border line.
The counterterrorism operations are underway in the northwestern parts of the country, said the commander, adding that “since last year, Saudi and the US intelligence networks have launched a unified agenda to create insecurity in Iran.”
Washington and Riyadh had ties with “old terrorist groups and PJAK,” an offshoot of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), pledging to equip and finance the terrorists in meetings held by their missions in Germany and the semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region, Arjmandfar further said.
"No matter where these terrorist groups are present to create insecurity, we will nip their terrorist operation and plots in the bud, if we wish,” he warned.
Iranian forces have recently engaged in clashes with terror groups, thwarting their terrorist activities on the frontier and within the country, arresting several of them and confiscating large amounts of explosives and bomb-making materials.
On Saturday, Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council, accused the Saudi diplomatic mission in Iraq’s northwest of assisting the notorious Komala terror group in sending militants to Iran.
"In an attempt to interfere in the affairs of Iran and Iraq, the Saudi consulate in Iraq’s northwest helps the Komala terror group dispatch terrorists to Iran,” he said, noting that the plots have all failed due to the “vigilance” of Iranian forces.
"The Saudis are the most evil administration on earth and throw the region into turmoil by their insanity,” he further stated.
