Iran said on Tuesday it has arrested 10 people linked to Mossad and that the Islamic republic had delivered the Israeli spy agency a "severe blow" after deeply infiltrating it.
Iran
said
on Tuesday it has arrested 10 people linked to Mossad and that the Islamic
republic had delivered the Israeli spy agency a "severe blow" after
deeply infiltrating it.
Intelligence Minister Heyder Moslehi told reporters the arrests were the result
of covert operations successfully carried out by the Iranian secret services.
"More than 10 people were arrested... we were able to identify their
(Mossad contacts) and to infiltrate them," the cleric said.
"We were able to infiltrate the Zionist entity's apparatus...we were able
to infiltrate deep into Mossad."
Moslehi's remarks come a day after reports that an alleged killer of senior
Iranian nuclear scientist Masoud Ali Mohammadi, who was murdered last year, was
trained in
Israel
.
Majid Jamali Fash, identified by
Iran
as
"the main element" behind Ali Mohammadi's assassination, was quoted
as saying late Monday on state television's website that he was trained by
Israeli military officers.
Jamali Fash said he was briefed about Ali Mohammadi and "practised bombing
in a base near Tel Aviv several times."
Moslehi said Jamali Fash was one of the members of the group arrested so far
and linked to Mossad.
"We are still debriefing the network...and thank God we were able to give
them (Mossad) a severe blow."
In January 2010, Ali Mohammadi, a professor of particle physics at prestigious
Tehran
University
, was
killed in a bomb attack outside his home which
Iran
blamed on "mercenaries" in the pay of
Israel
and
the
United States
.
Iran
has
also accused the intelligence services of
Israel
, the
U.S.
and
Britain
of
being behind bomb attacks against two top nuclear scientists on November 26.
Majid Shahriari, a senior scientist involved in
Iran
's
nuclear activities, was killed by a bomb placed against his car, while
Fereydoon Abbasi Davani, another top nuclear expert, was wounded in a similar
attack.
Western governments suspect
Iran
's
nuclear programme masks a drive for an atomic weapons capability, an ambition
Tehran
has
steadfastly denied.
Israel
and
its ally the
United States
have
not ruled out a military strike against
Iran
to
stop its nuclear program.
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