Iran catches IS followers

teheran - Iranian security services have arrested members of an Islamic state who estimated bomb and suicide attacks on Shi'ish sanctuaries in Iran. Firearms, bombs, explosives and bombing materials were confiscated, state television reported on Saturday.

How many people were arrested, the television did not say.

The announcement comes a few days after the Iranian Revolutionary Guard from western Iran flung missiles to IS bases in eastern Syria. Iran reacted to two terrorist attacks on the parliament in Tehran and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini on June 7, leaving 18 people left.