Iran announced late Friday it has identified and arrested in the vicinity of the country’s capital a number of ISIL elements planning to sabotage rallies marking the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Speaking to reporters at a rally held in the central city of Kashan on Friday, Iran’s Prosecutor General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri said undoubtedly, if it had not been for the resistance shown by Iran-backed axis of resistance, ISIL terrorists would have come to the country’s borders.

“These individuals sought to [carry out their] plots during Bahman 22 rituals,” Montazeri said, adding that a group of ISIL terrorists were arrested near Tehran a couple of days ago. He noted that further information on the plots of these nabbed ISIL operatives would be revealed to the Iranian nation within the next few days.

Millions of Iranians filled the streets countrywide on Friday to relive the day 38 years ago when the nation’s hard-fought Islamic Revolution against the former US-backed regime became victorious.

Demonstrators hung Trump in effigy, burned the US and Israeli flags, and paid tribute to the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, under whose leadership the revolutionary movements triumphed over the despotic regime of Pahlavi on February 11, 1979.

Source: Iranian media