TEHRAN – In a statement on Friday, the Intelligence Ministry announced that it had dismantled two terrorist cells in Kermanshah province, western Iran.

“Two armed terrorist cells which had illegally crossed into Iran were dismantled by intelligence forces in the western province of Kermanshah during two ambush operations,” the statement read, Mehr reported.

Two days after the assassination of Hassan Maleki, commander of the traffic police in Ravansar City in Kermanshah province on August 14, the intelligence forces arrested 12 members of a terrorist group related to this case, it added.

MH/PA