TEHRAN- An anti-revolutionary terrorist group that planned to carry out atrocities in the province of Kerman in the southeast of the country was destroyed by Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) security services.

Chief of the provincial judiciary office Ebrahim Hamidi announced on Saturday that after conducting complex surveillance operations, members of the pro-monarchy terror team were discovered and taken into custody.

Hamidi continued, “The terrorists had taken a number of actions over the past year to undermine security, such as attacks on various facilities, acts of vandalism against public properties, setting city banners ablaze, distribution of anti-revolutionary leaflets, and sending video clips to foreign-based satellite television channels.”

He also noted that the terrorists were also in contact with hostile elements and foreign-based anti-Iran media outlets.

Members of the terrorist squad had received orders from pro-monarchy terrorist ringleaders and were participating in armed acts, according to the top judiciary official.

The individuals who were taken into custody were planning to kill the members of the morality police and a provincial security unit. But, Hamidi noted, the IRGC troops could frustrate their plan and apprehend them.

Iranian security agents also arrested scores of people connected to the terrorist Takfiri Daesh group in late September after foiling a conspiracy to launch an array of terrorist bombing strikes in Tehran, the country’s capital.

At the time, the Iranian Intelligence Ministry declared in a statement that all terrorists engaged in the scheme had been apprehended and that its forces had thwarted a violent conspiracy to launch 30 simultaneous bombings in Tehran’s residential neighborhoods.

According to the statement, the bombing attacks were strategically timed to undermine Iran’s security, present a false impression of the country’s instability, incite dissatisfaction and fear among the populace, and spark unrest and protests precisely one year after the internationally-backed riots of the previous year.