Iran says eight arrested for suspected links to Israel’s Mossad spy agency
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox
A statement by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards alleged that eight people it arrested had received specialised training from Israel’s Mossad via online platforms.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Follow topic:
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Aug 30 that they had arrested eight people suspected of trying to transmit the coordinates of sensitive sites and details about senior military figures to Israel’s Mossad, the Iranian state media reported.
They are accused of having provided the information to the Mossad spy agency during Israel’s air war on Iran in June
Iran retaliated with barrages of missiles on Israeli military sites, infrastructure and cities.
The United States entered the war on June 22
A Guards statement alleged that the suspects had received specialised training from Mossad via online platforms.
It said they were apprehended in north-eastern Iran before carrying out their plans, and that materials for making launchers, bombs, explosives and booby traps had been seized.
The state media reported earlier in August that Iranian police had arrested as many as 21,000 “suspects” during the 12-day war with Israel, though they did not say what these people had been suspected of doing.
Security forces conducted a campaign of widespread arrests and also stepped up their street presence during the brief war that ended in a US-brokered ceasefire
Iran has executed at least eight people in recent months, including nuclear scientist Rouzbeh Vadi, who was hanged on Aug 9
Human rights groups say Iran uses espionage charges and fast-tracked executions as tools for broader political repression. REUTERS
