Iran Disbands Wahhabi Terrorist Team Intend to Assassinate Number of Senior Clerics

Iranian intelligence and security forces managed to disband a Wahhabi terrorist group which plotted to carry out sabotage operations in Iran.
Iranian intelligence and security forces managed to disband a Wahhabi terrorist group which plotted to carry out sabotage operations in Iran.

The terrorist team was sponsored by extremist groups (Salafists) and organized by anti-revolutionary elements outside the country.

One of the detainees has said that the team intended to “assassinate a number of senior clerics” and a sum of 1 billion Rials (about $80,000) had been offered for the operation.

Wahhabis who call themselves as a real Muslims, founded in Arabic peninsula. The sect was founded by Abdul Wahhab (1703-1792). They claim to be striving to purify Islamic beliefs and are strongly opposed to Shiism. Osama bin Laden, Head of the al-Qaeda terrorist group, was a Wahhabi Muslim.

Officials not just in Iran, but all through the region have on various occasions denounced extremist measures of the Wahhabis in certain countries, urging Muslim communities for more vigilance and unity.