Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence announced on Saturday to have arrested “a network of agents” from Israel who were allegedly preparing “sabotage and terrorist operations.” The arrests were announced hours after Israel said its own agents had interrogated an Iranian military official on Iranian territory.
The alleged spies “were in contact with agents of the Mossad spy-terrorist organization,” Iran’s Tasnim News Agency reported, referring to the national intelligence agency of Israel. The agents had reportedly entered the country from the Kurdistan region, and were found in possession of communications equipment and explosives.
The Israelis were allegedly collaborating with the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran, an anti-Iran militant group.
Tehran’s intelligence ministry has announced the arrest of a network of Israeli Mossad agents who entered Iran to carry out attacks against “sensitive” sites, says the country's state media ⤵️ https://t.co/gS5kLdHCnf
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) July 24, 2022
The Israeli prime minister’s office, which oversees Mossad, declined to comment when contacted by the Jerusalem Post.
While Israeli officials stayed silent on the reported arrests, they did claim an espionage victory of their own. Earlier on Saturday, Iran International alleged that Mossad agents working inside Iran had managed to interrogate a senior member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Video footage purportedly of the interrogation showed the military official confessing to the transfer of weapons to Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen.
So the place with hundreds of nukes that has committed non stop war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing in Palestine and Lebanon bombed & stolen Syrian land, armed the genocide in Rwanda and supported South Africa till the end tells us Iran is the problem?
— Stanley Cohen (@StanleyCohenLaw) July 23, 2022
Iran International is a Saudi-owned television station and is highly critical of the Iranian government. The network reported a similar interrogation taking place in June, but Iranian state media blamed the kidnapping and questioning on unnamed Iranians rather than Israelis.
So the Mossad absolves Iran, suggesting Nisman's charges (promoted by FDD & other Likudniks) against Iran's top leadership for supposedly ordering the AMIA attack were all nonsense. https://t.co/Ie8IQIQLhh https://t.co/YOv3BtSGXM
— Jim Lobe (@LobeLog) July 23, 2022
Iran and Israel regularly accuse each other of espionage, and both nations often claim to have captured each other’s spies. If these reports are to be believed, Iranian and Israeli intelligence agencies have significantly compromised each other’s security.
Iran claimed in June that it had captured three Mossad agents “tasked with the assassination of nuclear scientists,” while Israel said in January that it had busted a predominantly female Iranian spy ring that collected damaging information on Israeli politicians, as well as photographing military bases and Mossad’s headquarters.
(RT, PC, Social Media)
