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Iraq announced Sunday that a network planning to carry out attacks with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) had been dismantled.
Iraqi government spokesperson Haydar al-Abbudi said in a television interview that "a network was infiltrated, dismantled and its members captured" through joint work by the Counter-Terrorism Service and National Intelligence Service.
Abbudi said some equipment belonging to the network had been seized, including UAVs.
He said the network had been "planning to carry out UAV attacks against certain targets" and that the attack plan had been prevented.
No information was provided about the identities of the network members or the locations that had been planned as targets.
The Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq and some Gulf countries have recently said they were targeted by UAV attacks allegedly carried out from Iraq by "pro-Iranian militias."
The region has faced heightened tensions since Feb. 28, when the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran, triggering Iranian retaliation and intermittent clashes.
According to Tehran, about 3,000 people have been killed in clashes that began with the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran.
Iran has also carried out attacks against the United States and Israel, as well as strikes it said targeted military facilities and equipment in Gulf countries.
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Some of those attacks killed civilians and damaged civilian infrastructure, while the targeted countries condemned the strikes and called for them to end.
After a memorandum of understanding was signed between Washington and Tehran on June 18, the parties began negotiations toward a final agreement.
However, disagreements later emerged over issues related to freedom and security of navigation in the strategically important Strait of Hormuz.
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