Report: Iranian police arrested members of a spy network linked to Israel
According to the report, the police arrested the leader of the network and four other members of a network linked to the Israeli intelligence service.
At the end of June it was reported that a senior general in the Revolutionary Guards, Ali Nasiri, was arrested on suspicion of spying for Israel
Reuters
07/28/2022
Thursday, July 28, 2022, 10:35 a.m. Updated: 10:48 a.m.
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The Iranian police arrested members of a spy network linked to Israel, the semi-official Iranian news agency ILNA reported today (Thursday).
The report indicates that the police arrested the leader of the network and four other members of the network linked to the Israeli intelligence service, according to a statement published by the intelligence organization of the Department of Law Enforcement in Iran.
At the end of June, it was reported in the "New York Times" that a senior general in the Revolutionary Guards, Ali Nasiri, was arrested on suspicion of spying for Israel.
According to a source within the Revolutionary Guards, the arrest occurred about two months after several dozen employees in the missile development program were arrested on suspicion of leaking classified military information.
The newspaper also reported that the former vice president of Iran, Mohammad Ali Abthai, admitted that "the security hacks inside Iran and the Israeli activities undermined our intelligence organization."
According to him, "the security of the country has been fatally damaged in the last year".
Israeli businessmen who were targets of Iran's assassination (photo: photo processing, photo processing)
A week earlier, it was reported that the head of the IRGC's intelligence organization, Hussein Tayeb, had been dismissed from his position.
According to Iranian television, Tayeb, who was appointed to the position in 2009, was appointed as an adviser to the commander of the Revolutionary Guards, Hossein Salami.
The New York Times reported that Nasiri was arrested before Taib was fired.
The first reports of Tayeb's removal appeared the day before in the evening in Twitter tweets by unofficial officials in Iran.
According to the same reports, he was removed due to the failure of the wing headed by him to thwart Mossad operations inside Iran.
A week earlier, the media advisor to the head of the Mossad, Dedi Barnea, briefed Israeli reporters that Tayeb was at the head of the Iranian effort to carry out attacks against Israeli citizens in Turkey.
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