Terrorists planning to attack polling stations arrested before election day

TEHRAN – Iran's deputy interior minister revealed Sunday that the country's security and intelligence forces successfully foiled terrorist plots to disrupt the June 28 presidential elections before voting began.

In an interview with Fars News Agency, Majid Mirahmadi shed light on the strategies employed by enemies during the recent presidential elections in Iran.

Mirahmadi revealed that anti-Iran groups and factions had designed multiple strategies to disrupt the electoral process. “Their first strategy was to discourage voter participation by promoting an electoral ban, and their second strategy was to infiltrate the candidates' electoral headquarters,” he said, highlighting efforts by adversaries to create false polarization and intensify societal divisions.

Furthermore, Mirahmadi pointed out that the enemies planned to raise the issue of electoral fraud and repeat past incidents. “The last and fifth strategy of enemies and adversaries was to raise the issue of election rigging and repeat the bitter incident of 2009,” he said.

In addition to these challenges, Mirahmadi also spoke about the persistent threat posed by terrorist groups during the elections. He revealed that these groups had planned to spread fear and prevent the people from participating in the electoral process through terrorist operations. “They tried to turn the elections into a general security challenge by implementing hard and soft strategies,” he added.

However, Mirahmadi reassured that due to effective intelligence operations, several terrorist elements who had been trained and prepared for disruptive activities during the elections were apprehended before they could carry out their plans. “Before the start of the elections, some of the terrorist elements who had been sent to the country, had received necessary training and were prepared for terrorist operations during the elections, were arrested by the anonymous soldiers of Imam Zaman (the term used in Iran for intelligence forces) and fortunately, the terrorist movements faced a complete defeat,” he said.