Iran foils oil pipeline bombing

Iran's security forces have thwarted a bomb attack on a strategic oil pipeline in the southwestern Khuzestan province, semi-official Fars news agency reported on Sunday.

 "The security forces vigilantly discovered and thwarted a bombing plot against Abadan-Mahshahr oil pipeline on Saturday evening," Abadan Governor Bahram Ilkhaszadeh said.

 The Iranian security forces received a tip-off on Saturday that a bomb attack on the oil pipeline is underway, Ilkhaszadeh said, adding that the thwart operation was conducted without causing any casualties.

 Khuzestan province is the home of ethnic Iranian Arabs and, over the years, it has been the scene of armed clashes between Iranian security forces and the Arab separatist groups.