Iran arrests 13 terrorist group members


Iran said on Sunday it had arrested 13 members of a terrorist group that authorities in the Islamic state say carried out attacks on minority Sunnis, state television reported.

The armed group was linked to the Islamic state's "foreign enemies," state television said, using a phrase that usually refers to the United States and Israel.

"The group was directly involved in last year's assassination of a Sunni Friday prayer leader ... a Sunni member of an influential clerical body ...
and a Sunni religious leader," an Intelligence Ministry