UAE dismantles Iran-linked organization says plotting terror operations

The UAE announced on Monday that it dismantled an Iran-linked terrorist organization for its involvement in covert activities that attempted to destabilize the country and undermine national unity.

The UAE’s State Security Department arrested the organization’s members adding that they were “planning systematic terrorist and sabotage operations on UAE soil.”

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Investigations showed that the organization’s members had adopted extremist ideas and ideologies that threatened internal security, the statement carried by the Emirates News Agency (WAM) said.

WAM shared mugshots of 27 men and their names.

The members had carried out recruitment and mobilization operations through secret meetings as part of “a coordinated plan with external entities aimed at accessing sensitive locations.”

Monitoring operations and investigations also revealed that the organization members held secret meetings inside and outside the country with “terrorist elements and suspicious organizations.”

These meetings aimed at spreading misleading ideas to Emirati youth and recruit them in support of foreign allegiances as well as incite them against the state’s foreign policy and internal measures.

“They also collected funds through unofficial means and transferred them to suspicious external entities.”

The charges brought against the members of the organization included establishing a secret organization, managing its activities within the country, pledging allegiance and loyalty to external parties, and undermining national unity and social peace, the statement carried by WAM said.

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