Iran announced on Monday the arrest of an agent that had been spying for Israel.
According the Iran's Intelligence Ministry, an "Israeli spy was detained in East Azerbaijan Province … along with several other agents that had ties with various intelligence services," the Young Journalists Club website quoted an Intelligence Ministry official as saying.
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The Islamic Republic refuses to recognize Israel and has accused it of being behind acts of sabotage and assassinations of scientists involved in its nuclear program.
In July 2020, the Iranian outlet Fars revealed that it had executed a man who had been convicted of spying.
The man was accused o providing intelligence to the CIA and the Israeli Mossad that was used for assassinating the head of the Qods Force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Qassem Suleimani, who led a campaign of terror for decades in the Middle East by exporting Iranian aggression to Lebanon and other areas.
Iran has blamed Israel for last year's killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was seen by Western intelligence services as the mastermind of a covert Iranian nuclear weapons program.
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