Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has foiled an alleged plot by the Iranian opposition group Mujahedin-e Khalq to infiltrate some of the country's most sensitive government sites, including the compound of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to a report in the pro-Iranian newspaper Al-Akhbar.
Citing unnamed sources, the Lebanese daily said the intelligence arm of the Revolutionary Guards had in recent days uncovered and foiled an operation planned by the Mujahedin-e Khalq, an Iranian Shiite-Marxist movement that is part of the Iranian opposition and is designated as a terrorist organization in the West.
According to the report, the plan involved operatives infiltrating high-security locations such as the presidential palace complex, the headquarters of the Supreme National Security Council and the compound housing Khamenei's office in Tehran.
Details published by Al-Akhbar suggest that the ultimate objective of the operation was to help bring about the overthrow of the regime in the Islamic Republic. The newspaper said the plan was thwarted before it reached the execution stage. The sources also claimed that the organization had received assistance from foreign intelligence agencies.
After conducting security surveillance, the Revolutionary Guards eliminated members of the cell and arrested others, the report said, describing the alleged plot as "one of the most complex and dangerous operations planned by the organization."
