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Iran sentences 'CIA spies' to death after 'breaking ring'
Iran says it has broken up a CIA spying ring and sentenced some of the 17 suspects to death.
According to an Intelligence Ministry statement read on state TV, the alleged spies were "employed in sensitive and vital private sector centres in the economic, nuclear, infrastructural, military and cyber areas... where they collected classified information".
Suspects were arrested during previous months, an Iranian intelligence official told a press conference.
He did not say how many had been sentenced to death, and did not give his name, which is unusual.
Reporters were told, however, that he was the director of the counterespionage department at Iran's Intelligence Ministry.
None of the suspected spies succeeded in their sabotage missions, he added, claiming that some of them had turned and were now working with his department against the United States.
Iran also aired a TV documentary purportedly showing a CIA officer recruiting an Iranian man in the United Arab Emirates.
In the film, a woman who speaks Persian with what appears to be an American accent says: "There are so many intelligence officers in Dubai. It is very dangerous... Iranian intelligence."
Last month, Iran said it had exposed a large cyber espionage network it alleged was run by the CIA - although it is unclear whether this latest development is linked to that.
Spies had been arrested in different countries, it claimed.
Iran says it has broken up a CIA spying ring and sentenced some of the 17 suspects to death.
According to an Intelligence Ministry statement read on state TV, the alleged spies were "employed in sensitive and vital private sector centres in the economic, nuclear, infrastructural, military and cyber areas... where they collected classified information".
Suspects were arrested during previous months, an Iranian intelligence official told a press conference.
He did not say how many had been sentenced to death, and did not give his name, which is unusual.
Reporters were told, however, that he was the director of the counterespionage department at Iran's Intelligence Ministry.
None of the suspected spies succeeded in their sabotage missions, he added, claiming that some of them had turned and were now working with his department against the United States.
Iran also aired a TV documentary purportedly showing a CIA officer recruiting an Iranian man in the United Arab Emirates.
In the film, a woman who speaks Persian with what appears to be an American accent says: "There are so many intelligence officers in Dubai. It is very dangerous... Iranian intelligence."
Last month, Iran said it had exposed a large cyber espionage network it alleged was run by the CIA - although it is unclear whether this latest development is linked to that.
Spies had been arrested in different countries, it claimed.
