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Israel says it arrested Iranian spy operating in West Bank
2019-06-21
[IsraelTimes] Israeli forces arrested an alleged Iranian spy earlier this year who had been operating in the West Bank, the Shin Bet security service reveals, amid escalating tensions with the Islamic Theocratic Republic over the collapsing nuclear deal.

According to the Shin Bet, a Jordanian national, Thaer Shafut, was sent into the West Bank last year "on behalf of Iranian intelligence to carry out missions that were meant to establish a network in Israel and the West Bank, which would be used for covert operations for the Iranians."

He entered Israeli territory in July-August 2018, after receiving instruction from Iranian operatives in Leb and Syria, the Shin Bet says.

He was told to establish business ties in Israel and the West Bank in order to form a base for this Iranian intelligence infrastructure.

Shafut was arrested in April, though this was kept gagged under the military censor until Thursday.

Just before his arrest, Shafut began making contact with people inside the West Bank with the goal of establishing this spy network, the Shin Bet says.

He was indicted on June 10 on charges of contacting a foreign agent, contacting an enemy organization and attempting to bring enemy funds into the region.

The end of the gag order comes hours after an American drone was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile in what the US military says was international airspace.
The Jerusalem Post adds:
The Shin Bet (Israeli security agency) arrested a Jordanian citizen, originally from Hebron, under the suspicion that he was acting as an Iranian spy.

The 32-year-old Thaar Shafout was arrested and, under interrogation, confessed that he was a Jordanian businessman carrying out missions to promote the establishment of infrastructure in Israel, as well as Judea and Samaria, which would serve clandestine Iranian activities.

Shafout originally met two representatives of Iranian intelligence in Jordan ‐ who acted under the aliases Abu Tsadek and Abu Jaafar ‐ and had several more meetings met with them throughout 2018 in Leb and Syria.

Tsadek and Jaafar instructed the Shafout to establish a business infrastructure in Israel as a cover for future Iranian activity, as well as to recruit more spies within the country to assist in gathering intelligence. He was then instructed to make business connections in Israel and in Judea and Samaria.

Shafout made several contacts "in the field" so that they could assist him in his mission. He initiated the creation of a plant in Jordan that would hire Shi’ite workers and serve as an anchor for future Iranian activity over the border in Israel. The Iranian contacts agreed to give an initial investment of $500,000 to create the plant, as well as more later to establish operations in the field. The contacts also gave him encrypted means of communication in order to contact them.

Iranian intelligence, according to Shafout, intended to use him to transfer funds to terrorist contacts throughout Israel. They wished for him ‐ once he finished carrying out all of the tasks for them in Israel ‐ to come to Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and finish his training as a spy.

The Shin Bet’s capture of Shafout thwarted all of these plans by the Iranian intelligence.
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