TEHERAN - Iran said on Saturday its intelligence services have detained a US-based leader of a pro-monarchist group whom it accused of being behind a deadly 2008 bombing and of plotting other attacks, and that he is being held in Iran.
"Jamshid Sharmahd, the ringleader of the terrorist Tondar group, who directed armed and terrorist acts in Iran from America, was arrested following a complicated operation, and is now in powerful hands," it said. Hamid Baeidinejad, Iran's ambassador to Britain, said on Twitter that Sharmahd"has been now detained and is in custody in Iran".
However it said in an earlier posting on social media that"Tondar... will continue to fight even in the absence of a commander".Based in Los Angeles, the little-known Kingdom Assembly of Iran, or Tondar, says it seeks to restore the Iranian monarchy that was overthrown by the 1979 Islamic revolution.According to the group's website, Sharmahd is an electronics engineer who was born in March 1955.
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