( CNN ) -- Iran said it has broken up an Israeli `` terror and sabotage network '' that was planning attacks within the country , making a number of arrests while confiscating weapons and equipment , state-run media reported . `` The complicated and months-long measures and moves made by the Iranian intelligence forces to identify the devils led to the discovery of the Zionists ' regional command center ... and discovering the identity of the agents active in that command center , '' a statement from the Iranian Intelligence Ministry said , according to the Fars News Agency . Paul Hirschson , a spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry said that every few months Iran spreads disinformation and there is no basis to the story . The developments come ahead of the scheduled resumption of nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers in Istanbul , Turkey , on Saturday . Faced with mounting pressure from the world powers over its controversial nuclear program , Iran said last month that it was ready to re-engage with the International Atomic Energy Association , the U.N. nuclear watchdog . As a signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty , Iran has the right , like other countries , to enrich uranium for commercial and research reactors . But the same facilities that are used for peaceful enrichment can be used to enrich uranium for a bomb . And that 's what many Western countries suspect Iran is doing . Iran insists its nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes . Tehran 's claims of an Israeli terror network come in the midst of an apparent shadow war the two nations are believed to be fighting . Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated and there have been mysterious explosions in the country . Also Iran and the Tehran-backed Lebanese militia Hezbollah have in recent months made various claims about discovering Israeli espionage operations , which have been met by either silence or flat out denials from Israeli government officials . Separately , there have been attempted attacks against Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia , along with suspected terror plots against Israeli targets in Thailand and Azerbaijan . CNN 's Hamdi Alkhshali and Kevin Flower contributed to this report .
Nuclear talks with Iran are scheduled to resume Saturday . Israel and Iran are believed to be engaged in a shadow war . The Israeli Prime Minister 's office had no official comment on the Iranian claims .