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Iran announces arrests, death sentences as CIA spy ring busted
TEHRAN, July 22, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Iranian authorities said on Monday that
security agencies had arrested 17 suspects and sentenced some of them to
death after dismantling a CIA spy ring in a case announced last month.
The agencies “successfully dismantled a (CIA) spy network on July 18,” the
head of counter-intelligence at the Iranian intelligence ministry, whose
identity was not revealed, told reporters in Tehran.
“Some were sentenced to death and some to long-term imprisonment.”
BSS/AFP/GMR/1400 hrs