TEHRAN, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Intelligence Ministry announced Saturday that its forces have arrested 31 members of four organized "sabotage" networks allegedly linked to the United States and Israel in the southeastern Kerman province.

In a statement published on its website, the ministry said the networks' members were detained in Sirjan County, adding that the detainees sought to carry out the U.S. and Israeli "enemies' plots" to disrupt people's security and destroy public and private properties.

According to the ministry, the networks were preparing to cause street riots and destruction and had made large numbers of Molotov cocktails as well as tools to damage public property, such as urban surveillance cameras.

It added that the networks' members had committed "widespread brutal and destructive" acts during the January unrests in Iran, including setting the governor's office building on fire, damaging banks, government buildings as well as public and private buildings and properties, attacking police stations and destroying urban surveillance cameras. ■

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