Iranian secret services uncovered a 17-member spy ring working against the country, according to state-affiliated media. Some of the agents have been given capital punishment.
All the suspects in question were arrested by Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported.
They were working as private contractors “in the economic, nuclear, infrastructural, military and cyber areas… where they collected classified information,” the report said.
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Some of the suspected agents were allegedly recruited by CIA officers while applying for US visas. Others were approached on the sidelines of scientific events in European, African, and Asian countries.
Tehran did not say when the spy ring was exposed, but said the arrests were made throughout the last Iranian calendar year, which ended in March 2019.
It is reported that they were also equipped with top-notch communication gear which they used to hand over intelligence to their American handlers.
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