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Iran claims arrest of 12 US spies
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November 25, 2011, Friday
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AN influential Iranian parliamentarian has announced the arrest of 12 agents of the US Central Intelligence Agency, according to the country's official IRNA news agency.
Parviz Sorouri, who sits on the powerful committee of foreign policy and national security, said the alleged agents were working with Israel's Mossad and other regional spy agencies to target the country's nuclear program and military.
Sorouri said: "The US and Zionist regime's espionage apparatuses were trying to damage Iran both from inside and outside, using regional intelligence services. Fortunately, with swift reaction by the Iranian intelligence department, the actions failed to bear fruit."
The lawmaker did not specify the nationality of the alleged agents, nor when or where they had been arrested.
The announcement follows the unravelling by Lebanon's Hezbollah of a CIA spy ring in that country.
Hezbollah's long-time leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, boasted in June on television he had unmasked at least two CIA spies who had infiltrated the ranks of the organization.
Though the US Embassy in Lebanon officially denied the accusation, American officials conceded that Nasrallah was not lying and that Hezbollah had subsequently methodically picked off CIA informants.
The US and its allies suspect Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapon program, a charge Iran denies.
Parviz Sorouri, who sits on the powerful committee of foreign policy and national security, said the alleged agents were working with Israel's Mossad and other regional spy agencies to target the country's nuclear program and military.
Sorouri said: "The US and Zionist regime's espionage apparatuses were trying to damage Iran both from inside and outside, using regional intelligence services. Fortunately, with swift reaction by the Iranian intelligence department, the actions failed to bear fruit."
The lawmaker did not specify the nationality of the alleged agents, nor when or where they had been arrested.
The announcement follows the unravelling by Lebanon's Hezbollah of a CIA spy ring in that country.
Hezbollah's long-time leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, boasted in June on television he had unmasked at least two CIA spies who had infiltrated the ranks of the organization.
Though the US Embassy in Lebanon officially denied the accusation, American officials conceded that Nasrallah was not lying and that Hezbollah had subsequently methodically picked off CIA informants.
The US and its allies suspect Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapon program, a charge Iran denies.
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