IRGC arrests over 120 across Iran over preparations for ‘attack by the enemy’

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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has arrested more than 120 people it says were affiliated with the US, UK and Israel, and were “preparing the grounds for a military attack by the enemy”, Al Jazeera reports citing Tasnim news agency reports.

The IRGC arrested seven suspects in the country’s East Azerbaijan province, who they alleged were “sending coordinates of sensitive locations to their headquarters”, Tasnim reports.

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