Iran killed four suspected Islamic State group militants near its border with Iraq, disrupting a cell that was planning attacks in the country, state media reported on Tuesday.
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According to the official police website, the firefight took place in a neighborhood in the city of Kermanshah, about 500 kilometers (310 miles) southwest of the capital, Tehran.
In June, Iranian intelligence authorities said they arrested 10 Daesh militants and seized about 100 kilograms of explosives meant to be used in auto and suicide bombs and other attacks in busy public places.
IRNA news agency quoted the governor of Kermanshah province, Asadollah Razani as saying that the three militants were shot dead in the house in the Kermanshah city where they were staying.
Speaking to reporters in the northern city of Rasht on Tuesday, Zolfaqari said intelligence and police forces have mounted two operations to arrest members of a Takfiri group in two areas in Kermanshah Province since Monday evening.
Iranian security forces killed three militants linked to Daeshin a city close to the Iraqi border, confiscating a weapons cache and belts armed with explosives. He did not elaborate.
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Iranian officials refer to the extremist Sunni armed groups, in particular in Syria and Iraq, as Takfiri.
