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Iran says 17 CIA spies arrested, some sentenced



TEHRAN: Iran has said it has arrested 17 Iranian nationals allegedly recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency to spy on the country’s nuclear and military sites, and some of them have already been sentenced to death.

An Iranian intelligence official told a press conference on Monday in Tehran that the arrests occurred over the past months. He did not say how many got the death sentence, Associated Press reported.

Publish Date : 22 July 2019 15:30 PM

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