Iran's Ministry of Intelligence announced that 14 members of ISIS-K have been arrested following a series of operations by the country's security forces.

Of these, seven ISIS members were arrested in Fars province and seven others in Tehran, Alborz and Khuzestan provinces, the ministry said.

Iran's Ministry of Intelligence said in a statement on Friday, “Fourteen elements directed by the American-Zionist group known as ISIS-K have been identified and arrested on the orders of judicial authorities."

According to a statement by Iran's Ministry of Intelligence, members of ISIS-K had entered Iran illegally in recent days with the aim of carrying out "terrorist operations”. It is not clear from which country these individuals entered Iran.

The ministry has not released any information about the identities of the arrested individuals.

Iran's Ministry of Intelligence also called on citizens and those involved in mosques, and religious centres to act with full vigilance as there is an upcoming Shia religious ceremony and to report suspicious movements to the security forces.

This comes as deadly ISIS-K attacks have also increased in Afghanistan and Pakistan's border areas. Earlier, ISIS-K claimed responsibility for Thursday's attack on a Taliban vehicle in Dara-e-Noor district of Nangarhar Province.

ISIS also claimed responsibility for two more attacks on Pakistani troops in the Khyber and Bajaur areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which are located near the Afghan border in the past week.