Iranian security forces arrested eight Sunni Islamists suspected of planning attacks to disrupt celebrations for Iran's Islamic revolution in the past week, the country’s Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi said on Saturday, according to Reuters.
Alavi said the eight were "Takfiri" foreigners, a word used by Iran to refer to hardline, armed, Sunni Islamist groups. He did not give details of which countries they were from.
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