TEHRAN — Iran has arrested 26 foreign nationals over
their alleged involvement in a deadly attack claimed by Daesh on a
Shiite Muslim shrine, the intelligence ministry said Monday.
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At least 13
people were killed on October 26 in an armed attack on the Shah Cheragh
mausoleum in Shiraz, according to an official toll.
“The intelligence
ministry has identified and arrested all agents involved in the terrorist
operation in Shiraz,” said a statement published on the ministry’s website.
According to the
statement, the 26 “takfiri terrorists” are from
Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan.
The term takfiri
in Iran and in several other countries refers to radical Sunni Islamist groups.
“These
terrorists were arrested in the provinces of Fars, Tehran, Alborz, Kerman, Qom,
and Razavi Khorasan”, as well as along Iran’s “eastern border”, the ministry
added.
The shooting at
the shrine — considered the holiest Shiite site in southern Iran — came on the
same day that thousands of people across the country paid tribute to Mahsa
Amini, 40 days after her death in police custody.
Amini, 22, died
on September 16, three days after her arrest by the morality police in Tehran
for allegedly breaching the country’s Islamic dress code for women.
The perpetrator
of the attack in Shiraz, identified by the intelligence ministry as Sobhan
Komrouni, died of wounds sustained while he was being arrested.
The ministry
said he was “a Tajik national” known as Abu Aisha.
It added that
the main coordinator of attacks in Iran, an Azeri national, was also arrested,
having entered the country through Tehran’s international airport from Baku.
He had been in
contact with a Daesh network abroad after arriving in Tehran, it added.
On October 31,
the ministry announced that several others had been arrested, including an
“operational support element” identified Monday as Mohammed Ramez Rashidi, an
Afghan national.
Remarks last
month by President
Ebrahim Raisi appeared to link the Shiraz attack, one of the
country’s deadliest in years, with the protests and “riots” following Amini’s
death.
He had vowed “a
severe response” to the attack.
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