Iran's intelligence minister has accused agencies of the US, Israel and Britain of cooperating with the Jundallah militant leader, Abdolmalek Rigi.
Heydar Moslehi on Tuesday showed a press conference a photograph of Abdolmalek Rigi at a US troop camp in Afghanistan 24 hours before his arrest, as well as an ID card, an Afghan passport and a Dubai visa belonging to Rigi and prepared by the US to facilitate his travels in the region. This was evidence of Rigi's collaboration with Washington and other countries.
He also said that Iran had managed to arrest Rigi on its own and without receiving any assistance from regional countries.
Moslehi then warned the intelligence agencies of the US and other countries to end their support for terrorist groups.
Iran's interior minister, Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar, said on Tuesday that the Jundallah group leader had been arrested outside the country and then brought to Iran.
The prosecutor of Iran’s southern city of Zahedan, Mohammad Marzie, said that Rigi would be tried in public by the Ministry of Justice in the southern province of Sistan-Baluchistan.
Marzie said there would be no problem with retaliatory reaction by Jundallah members, as they would have no option but to surrender.
A senior judiciary official in Sistan-Baluchistan, Ebrahim Hamidi, said Pakistan had not helped Iran to arrest Rigi.
A senior police official in Sistan-Baluchistan said that local security forces had everything under control.
Rigi will be tried on charges of kidnapping, assassination, mass murder, sabotage and bombing.
Rigi’s group used neighbouring countries, including Pakistan, as a hideout.
ISNA