TEHRAN: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have dismantled a spy network linked to Israeli intelligence who tried to gather information on Iranian nuclear and military programs, the guard’s chief said yesterday.
“The intelligence bureau of the Revolutionary Guards Corps has recently discovered a spy network linked with the Israeli Mossad,” Mohammad Ali Jafari said on state radio.
“This network sought to gather important information from the Guards’ military section, the country’s nuclear centers and some security officials,” he said.
“Very good information as well as equipment that this network were supplied with have been discovered and people will be informed of the evidence in the near future,” he said.
Jafari did not specify how many people were detained or where and when the group was arrested.
He said the detainees had confessed to “being trained in bombing and assassination in Israel and had bought vehicles and lots of equipment with Mossad support,” the state broadcaster’s website said. Iran said on Saturday it had hanged an Iranian telecoms salesman convicted of spying for arch-enemy Israel and warned that a “more serious intelligence war” had begun with the Jewish state.
“We have no comment to make on such non-proven reports from this country,” was all Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said of Jafari’s disclosure.
