Iran has sent two of its citizens to prison on charges that they spied for the US and Israel.
An Iranian court has sentenced two Iranians suspected of spying for the US and Israel to 10-year prison terms.
“The two persons were sentenced to 10-year prison terms by Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Court,” Judiciary Spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni Eje’i stated on Sunday, according to Iran’s Fars news agency.
The identity of the two convicts was not revealed and no further details were offered.
Iranian Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alawi leveled heavy allegations of elaborate espionage in Iran when he announced in October that the country’s security forces had arrested several spies in the southern province of Bushehr, which hosts the nation’s first nuclear power plant.
“Thanks to the vigilance of the Intelligence Ministry forces who monitor the moves of the foreign intelligence services, some agents who intended to carry out surveillance and intelligence gathering for the foreigners in Bushehr province have been identified and sent to justice,” Alawi said at the time.
He also warned that foreign spy agencies, including the CIA, Mossad and MI6, were seeking to target and carry out sabotage operations against Iran’s nuclear and defense programs, stressing that “his forces knew how to fool the foreign spies.”
“Some (spying) services like Mossad, the MI6 and the CIA and the countries which are enemies of Iran are naturally in pursuit of negative objectives in the Islamic Republic or sometimes they act directly and leave negative effects in political, economic and social fields,” Alawi said. “And sometimes they make use of other spying services for proxy jobs or use people’s internet pages.”
“Our nuclear, defense and missile industries and advanced technologies are the arenas in which they seek to gain intelligence and carry out sabotage operations,” Alawi charged, adding that his agency has “identified the hostile spy agencies’ weak and strong points and adopted the necessary actions to manage these spy agencies.”
By: United with Israel Staff
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