TEHRAN: Iran´s Revolutionary Guards announced Thursday the arrest of three "terrorists" accused of plotting an attack against senior commander Qassem Soleimani.
The suspects "were sent abroad" and "large sums of money were spent to train them and prepare them" to carry out an attack against Soleimani, the Guards´ official website Sepahnews said.
Soleimani heads the Guards´ elite Quds Force, which runs foreign operations, and is regarded as the mastermind of Iran´s military strategy in the region.
Sepahnews, citing the Guards´ intelligence chief Hossein Taeb, said the three were planning an attack against Soleimani during a religious ceremony in southern Iran.
They had dug a tunnel underneath a holy site in the city of Kerman that belongs to Soleimani´s father and rigged it with "350 to 500 kilogrammes (770-1,100 pounds) of explosives", he said.
The suspects, whose identities were not revealed, had been on the radar of the Guards for a long time and were arrested as they plotted the attack, he added.
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