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Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli announced that the country's security forces have discovered a secret tunnel in Eastern Iran that the terrorists sought to use for sabotage operations, Fars Agency reported.

“Two nights before, we discovered a 40-meter tunnel in the 20-meter depth of the earth in the Eastern parts of the country and they (the terrorists) intended to use it secretly in ripe conditions for conducting explosion and other operations," Rahmani Fazli said as quoted by the source.

"40 people were arrested in this regard," he added, but declined to provide any further details.

In a relevant development, the agency referred to informed source that the Iranian security forces dismantled a terrorist cell in the Southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan.

"Members of a team which sought to carry out sabotage acts and blow up different places in Khash were identified and arrested," the source said.
In June, the Iranian intelligence ministry announced that the country's security forces have defused several suicides and terrorist attacks in different provinces, including Tehran.

The statement added that the terrorist groups had plotted imminent bombings in different parts of the country, including Tehran and a number of other provinces, during the religious ceremonies in the holy month of Ramadan.