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2023-05-22 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran claims to capture infiltrators linked to Israel
[IsraelTimes] Intelligence minister says group apprehended recently while crossing western border with Iraq
There are always warehouses to empty and generals to execute, I suppose, though it seems more likely those crossing from Iraq would be Kurds doing it for ethnic patriotism rather than stooges for Israel.
;s Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib said Sunday that the country’s forces had recently captured a "terrorist" group he claimed was linked to Israel, local media reported.

Khatib said the team was captured entering across the western border with Iraq. He said the new government in Iraq has promised to tighten border security.

"Any action on the borders will be met with a decisive and crushing response" from security forces, he told a conference of prosecutors.

He also warned the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government that it too is responsible for preventing insecurity against 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 the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
in the border area, the Tasnim news agency reported.
Ah ha!
Iran makes claims of busting Israeli spy rings from time to time, but the veracity of such claims is unclear.

The regime has been violent mostly peacefully squelching protests that erupted throughout the country after the September 2022 death of Mahsa Amini, 22, in the custody of morality police after she allegedly violated the country’s dress code. Hundreds of people have been killed, including members of the security forces, and over 10,000 have been arrested. Several protesters have been executed.

Tehran has accused the United States and Israel of planning what it refers to as "riots." In October, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...
condemned the protests as a foreign plot to destabilize the Islamic Theocratic Republic.

In January, Iran claimed to have apprehended two cells linked to Israel’s Mossad spy agency that it alleged were operating in the country to exploit protests.

Tehran and Jerusalem have long accused each other of espionage activities and plots to sabotage critical infrastructure, part of a lengthy shadow war between the arch-foes.

Israel views Iran as its greatest threat and has repeatedly threatened to take military action to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons. Iran denies seeking such weapons and has vowed a harsh response to any Israeli aggression.

In January 2022, Israel said it had broken up an Iranian spy ring that recruited Israeli women via social media to photograph sensitive sites, gather intelligence and encourage their sons to join Israeli military intelligence.

In early December last year, Iran executed four people accused of working for the Mossad, while three others received lengthy prison sentences.
Posted by trailing wife 2023-05-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [19 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

#1 I nominate Brittany Griner as a special envoy for women’s sports to Iran and Afghanistan. She owes us some work.

I wonder if Iran security does a Kevin Bacon test to discover people’s connections to Israel - maybe a halal version of Kevin Bacon with Lamb instead.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-05-22 03:38||   2023-05-22 03:38|| Front Page Top

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