Iran’s intelligence ministry has arrested a leader of a separatist group allegedly involved in the killing of dozens of people during a military parade in 2018, state-run IRNA news agency reports.
The report says Farajollah Cha’ab was arrested and calls him “the main person in the terrorist attack” in September 2018 in the southwestern city of Ahvaz.
The report does not elaborate on when or where he was arrested.
The statement says Cha’ab had been planning more attacks in Tehran and Khuzestan province.
In September 2018, militants disguised as soldiers opened fire on an annual military parade in Ahvaz city, the capital of Khuzestan province. At least 25 people were killed and 70 wounded, including a 4-year-old boy.
This picture taken on September 22, 2018, in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz shows Iranian soldiers carrying away an injured colleague at the scene of an attack on a military parade that was marking the anniversary of the outbreak of its devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. (AFP/ ISNA / MORTEZA JABERIAN)
The report claims Saudi Arabia and Israeli intelligence services supported the group.
— AFP
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