State news agency IRNA did not specify how many foreign agents have been arrested or if they are operating only in Iran. iran cia
IRNA says Tehran had carried out the operation in cooperation with ‘foreign allies’, without naming any state.
“Following clues in the American intelligence services, we recently found the new recruits Americans had hired and dismantled a new network,” state news agency IRNA said, quoting an intelligence ministry official. In what it termed a “wide-reaching blow” to US intelligence, IRNA said Tehran had carried out the operation in cooperation with “foreign allies”, without naming any state.
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