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Iran TV: British-Linked Terrorists Arrested

   Elizabeth Arrott | Cairo 04 November 2010

   Iranian  state  television  says  authorities  have  arrested four men
   described  as  "British-linked  terrorists."Â   The men are accused of
   being assassins for the Kurdish group Komala.
   According  to  state media, Iran's intelligence ministry says the four
   men  carried  out  five assassinations in the past two years. They are
   said  to  have  confessed  to be working on orders from Jalil Fattahi,
   reported to be living in the United Kingdom.
   State television says Fattahi is a leader of Komala, a leftist Kurdish
   militant group that has been working against Iran's Islamic government
   for years.
   The  intelligence  ministry  says  the men also confessed to receiving
   their  orders  in  Sulaimaniya,  in  Iraqi  Kurdistan,  and were given
   weapons and cash on the Iran-Iraq border. Â
   Intelligence  officials  said  Britain not only has been spying inside
   Iran, but has funded what they called terrorist groups.
   British  intelligence  last week said more espionage work is needed to
   counter  Iran's  controversial nuclear program, a point noted Thursday
   by Iranian media.

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