TEHRAN – Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alawi announced on Monday that security forces managed to detain members of a terrorist team affiliated to Daesh (ISIL) in southwestern Iran.

One of the members of the terrorist cell, whose brother had been killed as a Daesh militant in Syria, intended to form a four-member group to join Daesh but they were arrested by intelligence forces in the southwest, Alawi said, according to Tasnim.

The terrorist team had planned to carry out acts of terror in some districts but their plots were foiled by intelligence forces, he explained.

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