TEHRAN, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced that it arrested a suspect linked to the Islamic State (IS), Press TV reported Wednesday.
The person, who planned to carry out terror attacks in the capital Tehran, was arrested in the Andisheh town in Shahriar County, said Col. Amin Yaamini, commander of the local IRGC division.
The suspect belongs to the IS-affiliated Ajnad al-Sham (Soldiers of the Levant) group, which is mainly active in the western Syrian provinces of Idlib and Hama, Yaamini added.
"So far, very important information has been collected from the IS element's phone, and he remains under investigation," he said.
According to the IRGC commander, the Ajnad al-Sham intends to conduct 300 terror operations in Tehran during the holy Muslim month of Muharram.
The IS terror group, which has been seeking to establish a caliphate in the region, sees Iran as one of its enemies in the region.
The group has claimed responsibility for the killings of at least 17 in the attacks on parliament in Tehran and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini on June 7.
On June 18, IRGC fired several missiles at IS bases in Syria in retaliation for the attack.
