Iran claims to nab 14 members of Israel-linked ‘terrorist team’

Iran claims to have arrested 14 members of a “terrorist team” with alleged ties to Israel that planned on carrying out assassinations in the country.

A judicial official announces the group was detained in northwestern Iran “as they were seeking to identify and assassinate various individuals,” the semiofficial Tasnim news agency reports, without providing any evidence.

Iran occasionally announces the detention of people it says are spying for foreign countries, including the United States and Israel, without providing proof to back up such claims.

The Islamic Republic has been engaged in a shadow war with the Jewish state for years, with Tehran accusing Jerusalem of being behind a series of sabotage attacks and assassinations targeting its nuclear program, carried out alongside the US.