Iran mentioned on Saturday its safety forces had arrested a community of brokers running for Israel sooner than they had been in a position to hold out sabotage and “terrorist operations”, state media reported.
The announcement via Iran’s Intelligence Ministry got here amid heightening tensions with arch-enemy Israel over Tehran’s nuclear programme.
“This community’s contributors had been in touch with (Israel’s) Mossad undercover agent company thru a neighbouring nation and entered Iran from (Iraq’s) Kurdistan area with complicated apparatus and powerful explosives,” the ministry mentioned in a commentary carried via state media.
The Israeli Top Minister’s Administrative center, which oversees Mossad, declined to remark.
Iran frequently accuses its enemies or competitors in another country, equivalent to Israel, the US and Saudi Arabia, of seeking to destabilise the rustic.
The Intelligence ministry didn’t say what number of people had been arrested and didn’t expose their nationality. The community deliberate “acts of sabotage and remarkable terrorist operations in delicate places”, its commentary mentioned, with out giving main points.
Previous this month, U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Top Minister Yair Lapid signed a joint pledge to disclaim Iran nuclear fingers. Tehran says its nuclear programme is non violent and denies in search of nuclear guns.