TEHRAN, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Tuesday that its forces seized a large batch of illegal explosives, weapons and ammunition in the country's northwest border area, which it said belonged to "counter-revolutionary" groups.
The consignment included substantial amounts of explosive materials, arms and ammunition, especially 198 bombs, according to a statement from the IRGC's Ground Force published on the IRGC's official news outlet Sepah News.
According to the ground force, the consignment was seized in the Targavar rural area of Urmia County, near the border with Türkiye, and it was being smuggled into the country.
The statement added that "terrorists and thugs" sought to transfer the batch to areas deep inside Iran to cause insecurity, but failed to do so thanks to the "vigilance and timely action" of the IRGC's intelligence forces. ■
