TEHRAN: Iran said Tuesday it has dismantled a new espionage network linkedto the US Central Intelligence Agency and arrested a number of spies.
“Following clues in the American intelligence services, we recently foundthe new recruits Americans had hired and dismantled a new network,” statenews agency IRNA said, quoting an intelligence ministry official.
It said some members of the CIA network had been arrested and handed overto the judiciary, while others still required “additional investigations”.
In what it termed a “wide-reaching blow” to US intelligence, IRNA saidTehran had carried out the operation in cooperation with “foreign allies”,without naming any state.
The agency’s source did not specify how many foreign agents were arrestedor if they were operating only in Iran.
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In a programme aired on Tuesday, Iranian state television gave details of a2013 operation to dismantle another CIA network.
Tensions between Washington and Tehran have been escalating following USaccusations that Tehran was behind attacks on two tankers in the Gulf ofOman last week. – APP/AFP
