Thursday, September 8, 2011

Iran says U.s. spied arrests 30 people (Reuters)

TEHRAN (Reuters)-Iran has been arrested, said an official in the United States, were spying, the media reported on Saturday to 30 people.

"The Intelligence Ministry, the active and devout sets ... with CIA agents arrested 30 people in confrontations with gold, which were the American spies," a State TV announced a lunchtime News.

According to the semi-official Fars News Agency, the suspects had passed information to the officials of the United States ' embassies or consular offices in third countries, including Malaysia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.

It said Iran had identified 42 Us intelligence officers in such countries, saying: "they are engaged in the collection of information on Iran's nuclear industry, aviation, defense and bio-technology," and "as available" basis, inter alia, the benefit.

Iran's espionage can carry the death penalty.

Washington did not have any diplomacy in Iran since the 1979 revolution, when the backup is complete, the Å¡aahi of the United States, and was followed by the US Embassy long occupation.

In the United States showed the WikiLeaks Web site published by the diplomatic cables are data collection offices of the countries neighbouring Iran, where the diplomats would aim to glean intelligence on the way to the Iranians.

Arrests after the two days of the date on which the notification becomes the US President Barack Obama's speech on the Middle East, reiterating Tehran is sponsoring terrorism in the view of Washington, and is seeking nuclear weapons, charges Iran denies,.

(Reports Of The Mitra Amiri; WRITTEN By Robin Pomeroy)


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