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TEHRAN, May 21 The Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced Saturday that it
has identified and dismantled a large spy network linked to the United
States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), reports China Daily.
The
elite and faithful forces of the Intelligence Ministry were able to
arrest a number of 30 American-linked spies in their confrontation with
the CIA agents and through numerous intelligence and
counter-intelligence operations, the statement said.
Also,
42 CIA operatives linked to the network have been identified in various
parts of the world, the ministry said in the statement.
It
said that not only did the Intelligence Ministry defuse the CIA's heavy
aggressive operations but the intelligence ministry's agents have
succeeded in feeding false information to the CIA through a number of
double-agents.
The ministry's Public
Relations Office added in the statement that the U.S.-related spy
network was operating under the cover of the so-called job-finding
centers to attract Iranian citizens to cooperate with them, by promising
them jobs and education opportunities, and deceiving them with visa and
entry permission to the United States.
The
network was "established by a number of the leading CIA operatives" in
some countries, and due to the massive intelligence and
counter-intelligence work, the Iranian intelligence agents succeeded in
discovering and completely dismantling the network, said the statement.
"The
network used a wide range of data bases and U.S. embassies and
consulates in several countries, specially in the United Arab Emirates
(UAE), Malaysia and Turkey, to collect information on Iran's scientific,
research and academic institutions in the fields of nuclear energy, air
and defense industries and biotechnology," the Iranian Intelligence
Ministry said.
The statement further
pointed out that the U.S. network also spied on Iran's oil and gas
pipelines, power and telecommunication grids, airports, customs
departments, network security and banks for future sabotage operations.
In
the past years, Iranian authorities have been accusing the United
States and Israeli intelligence services of spying on Iran' s military
and nuclear programs.
In January, Iran
said it had dismantled an Israeli spying network and arrested a group of
its terrorist- spies who were linked to the assassination of its
nuclear scientist.
An Iran's
Intelligence Ministry announcement said then that, " In order to carry
out its non-human, anti-Islamic and anti-Iranian wills, the Mossad
(Israeli intelligence agency) has used its bases in some European, non-
European and some neighboring states of the Islamic Republic to conduct
the terror attack against Dr. Massoud Ali-Mohammadi."
In
January 2010, Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, the nuclear scientist from Tehran
University, was killed by a remote-controlled bomb attached to a
motorbike parked near his house.
In
November 2010, another Iranian nuclear scientist Majid Shahriar was also
killed by a bomb attached to his car on the way to his work.
Also,
Iranian nuclear officials have accused the United States and Israel of
cyber-attacks on Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant computers but they
have denied any serious damage to the facilities.
