Iran's Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi has announced that a Takfiri terrorist plot involving foreign nationals has been discovered and thwarted in the southern province of Fars, Press TV reported Thursday.

Alavi made the announcement on Wednesday, adding that during the operations, several foreign nationals were detained and around 100 kilograms of explosives were discovered.

He also said that the Takfiris had planned to carry out their plot during the mourning ceremonies commemorating the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein.

On Tuesday, Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) foiled an attempt by a team of counter-revolutionary terrorists to infiltrate the country via its northwestern province of Kordestan.

Brigadier General Mohammad Hossein Rajabi, the commander of the IRGC’s Kordestan arm, made the announcement, noting that the terrorists were from the Kurdistan Free Life Party, also known as PJAK.

IRGC forces engaged the gang in the Golchidar area of the province’s Marivan county, inflicting material losses and casualties on them and forcing them to flee.

Source: MENA