Alireza Rezaei who was speaking to reporters on Tuesday in northeastern city of Tabriz, said that his intelligence operatives had succeeded to detect and arrest a group of 20 people, majority foreign nationals, who had been planning to join ISIL in Syria and Iraq; “we recommend the public to cooperate with intelligence operatives and offices across the province in helping us detect timely the sabotage acts and or terrorist-affiliated threats; their cooperation will definitely enrich and strengthen our efforts to protect the public from terrorism and other sorts of threat,” he told reporters.
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