Iran arrests 12 people for being operatives collaborating with Israel

23/9/2024 6:09

        Iran's Revolutionary Guards
        said on Sunday that 12 people had been arrested for being
        operatives collaborating with Israel and planning acts against
        Iran's security.
        
        "As the Zionist regime (Israel) and their Western backers,
        most notably the United States, have not succeeded in their
        sinister goals against the people of Gaza and Lebanon, they are
        now seeking to spread the crisis to Iran with a series of
        actions planned against our country's security," the statement
        said.
        
        Tensions in the Middle East have shot up since thousands
        of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Lebanon's Hezbollah members
        exploded in an attack widely blamed on Israel. Hezbollah and
        Israel have exchanged some of the heaviest cross-border fire in
        a conflict running in parallel to the almost year-long Gaza war.
        
        The Revolutionary Guards added that members of the
        network of 12 operatives were arrested in six different Iranian
        provinces, but did not say when.
        
        In late July, the political leader of Palestinian
        Islamist group Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed in Tehran in an
        assassination blamed on Israel by Iranian authorities. Israel
        has made no claim of responsibility.