Iran says it has arrested 17 Iranian nationals that it claims were recruited by the CIA, and that some of them have been sentenced to death.
A woman walks past a mural in a sidewalk in downtown Tehran, Iran, Sunday, July 21, 2019.
He did not elaborate, say how many of them got the death sentence nor when the sentences were handed down. The official claimed that none of the 17, who allegedly had “sophisticated training,” had succeeded in their sabotage missions. Their spying missions included collecting information at the facilities they worked at, carrying out technical and intelligence activities and transferring and installing monitoring devices, he said.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a former CIA director, declined on Monday to address specifics of the arrests. But he added that “the Iranian regime has a long history of lying.”
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