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Iran Identifies 17 CIA-Trained Spies – Media Citing Intelligence Ministry Official
from Sputnik News:
Earlier, Iranian authorities announced that a “large US cyber-espionage” network run by the CIA had been busted in the country, with several spies being arrested.
According to semi-official Fars news agency citing an Iranian intelligence ministry official, 17 CIA-trained spies have been identified.
“Some were sentenced to death and some to long-term imprisonment,” ministry official said.
“The rulings for these spies have been issued and a number of them will be executed as corruptors on Earth,” the director-general of the intelligence ministry’s counterespionage department said as quoted by the Fars news agency.
Photos of the some of the CIA intelligence officers and spies arrested by Iran. They are 17 spies, some of whom have received death sentences. Iran is going to broadcast a documentary on their arrest today. pic.twitter.com/S3FfbtvOv1
— Reza Khaasteh (@Khaaasteh) July 22, 2019
The media report, which has yet to be confirmed, follows Tehran’s announcement on 17 June that the country had dismantled a CIA-run “large US cyber-espionage” network.
According to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, the cooperation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and other countries has led to “the disclosure and dismantling of a network of CIA officers, as well as the detention and punishment of several spies.”
In June, Iranian defence employee, Jalal Haji Zwar, who allegedly collaborated with the CIA and spied for the United States, has been executed in Rajaishahr Prison. Jalal Haji Zwar worked as a contractor for the ministry-controlled Aerospace Industries Organization, but was dismissed in 2010.
Earlier, two oil tankers, the Panama-registered Kokuka Courageous, operated by Japan’s Kokuka Sangyo Co, and Marshall Islands-flagged Front Altair, owned by Norway’s Frontline, were hit by explosions in the Gulf of Oman, near the Strait of Hormuz.
Shortly after the incident, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Tehran of orchestrating the attacks, with the US CENTCOM releasing a video claiming to show Iranian sailors removing an unexploded mine from the hull of one of the tankers as “proof” of Tehran being the culprit.
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