Iranian state media says intelligence services killed a member of a separatist group, which it accuses of links to Israel, and arrested two others in the country’s northwest.
“Intelligence service agents killed one of the main members of this terrorist group, and two others were arrested,” state television reports, adding that their weapons were seized.
It says they were detected trying to enter Iran’s West Azerbaijan province from northern Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, where several exiled Iranian Kurdish groups are based, “with the aim of causing riots, terror and insecurity.”
It does not specify what group the members belonged to, only that it was a “group affiliated with the Zionist regime,” referring to Israel.
Iran often makes claims of arresting or killing Israeli agents. Such claims are difficult to verify.
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