MOSCOW, August 31. /TASS/. Intelligence services of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, elite units of the Iranian Armed Forces) have accused the Israeli foreign intelligence service Mossad of plotting an act of sabotage at facilities of Iran’s defense-industrial complex, Tasnim News Agency has said.

According to the news agency, members of a Mossad-run group of plotters intended to disrupt missile launches by supplying substandard or defective parts and components that would cause missiles to explode at the moment of launch.

The Iranian intelligence has apprehended all suspected saboteurs.

All routes for the delivery of defective parts were identified by the intelligence service and neutralized.

According to General Mahdi Farahi, the deputy head of Iran’s Defense Ministry, if the sabotage had not been prevented, all missiles produced at the factories in question would have failed.

The intelligence service did not specify what industrial enterprises it was referring to or their location.

The Israeli authorities have not commented on the Iranian special services’ statements so far.