TEHRAN, Dec 26 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), announced yesterday that, it had arrested “seven leaders of recent riots” who had been linked to Britain.
The IRGC branch of southern Kerman Province has dismantled “an organised network called Zagors, which was led directly by elements from Britain, which formed a team of active anti-revolutionary elements, inside and outside the country,” a statement from the IRGC branch was quoted as saying.
The IRGC said, the seven people “participated in planning, directing, producing content, and field actions in the recent riots” in Iran.
Some of them were dual nationals, who were trying to flee the country, it noted.
The IRGC’s Intelligence Organisation is trying to identify and pursue other “internal and external elements” of the network, it said, adding that, more information will be provided later.
Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency reported yesterday that, police from the Iranian capital, Tehran, have arrested four people, in the city’s Enghelab Square, who were “among the main perpetrators and leaders of instability, calling for riots (in the city).”– NNN-IRNA
