Iran's security agents foil bomb attack, capture four foreigners

Iran's security forces have defused an explosive device in the city of Hashtgerd, West of the capital Tehran, and have arrested four non-Iranian individuals.

The explosive device was found near high-voltage electricity posts and a gas reduction station in the city of Hashtgerd, 70 kilometres west of Tehran, Fars news agency reports.

Iran's security troops have managed to detain four foreign nationals in this connection, according to reports.

There are no further details available.

"Iran has in recent months captured several members of spy networks affiliated with foreign secret services. The militants were involved in making explosives and hand-made bombs and linked to foreigners and planned to carry out counter-security acts and set up operational groups to direct the riots in Iran," Fars reports.

Back in mid-February, an Iranian official with the General Intelligence Department of the Southern Iranian Province of Fars shed light on the country's nonstop efforts in the fight against terror groups, revealing that security agents have thwarted 200 terrorist operations since 2014.

The official, identified by media by his last name Kheirandish, stated that intelligence agencies have defused some 200 bombing plots in the country since 2014 when Daesh (also known as ISIL or ISIS) terrorist group launched a campaign to directly target Iran.