IRGC arrests five Mossad-linked agents in northwest Iran

The Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in the northwestern Iranian province of West Azarbaijan says it has arrested five agents for sharing information with the Israeli-backed terrorist “Iran International” television channel.

In a statement on Monday, the IRGC said the agents have taken footage and sent information about the locations of the gatherings of security and military forces to the Israeli-affiliated media network, and thus prepared the ground for connection with the Israeli spy agency Mossad.

It added that the agents were detained by the IRGC forces through intelligence and cyber operations.
According to security investigations, such measures are tantamount to sharing information of locations with the enemy for possible targeting of them by the Israeli regime.

The case is under investigation and necessary measures will be carried to identify other agents.
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry said on Sunday that it has identified and arrested 18 mercenaries of “Iran International” over sending photos of the places bombed by the American-Israeli enemy and the locations of emergency aid workers and rescue and relief teams to the channel.

It added that legal action has been launched against 21 other mercenaries, emphasizing that procedures will continue firmly.

The ministry warned that those who act as the enemy’s “fifth column” during the war time will receive the severest punishment as per an official notice by Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and a law regarding the intensification of fight against the Israeli regime.

Meanwhile, Iran’s police chief, Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Radan, said in a televised interview on Sunday that country’s police forces have arrested 500 people for sharing information with the enemies amid the ongoing US-Israel war, which started on February 28.

Radan added that 250 of the detainees have been identified as “important cases” who gave information to the enemy and had been cooperation with grouplets by “taking footage of strike locations and sending it to them.”

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