Saudi Arabia claims to have smashed a so called ‘terror cell’ that had allegedly received training from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.

Al Jazeera reports that weapons and explosives had been seized, at two locations, a house and a farm, and that 10 people had been arrested. Saudi State Security said that three of those arrested had been trained in Iran, while the rest were “linked to the cell in various roles”. A state security  spokesperson said that members of the cell had “received military and field training, including on how to make explosives”, in Iran, in 2017.

In a statement the Kingdom’s State Security said that improvised explosive devices (IEDs), stun guns, gunpowder, rifles, and pistols, had been seized. The statement further reads that investigations would be conducted with those arrested, for information about the cells activities and those connected to it, both in Saudi Arabia and abroad.

An Interior Ministry spokesman said the cell planned to carry out an attack that had reached late stages of execution.

Umm Muhammed Umar