Iran Arrests 15 'Spies And Terrorists', Says They Are Israel-Linked

International Business Times ^

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Iran has released more details about what it says was Israel-backed terror plot broken up last week, including the revelation that 15 people, accused of being Iranian and foreign spies, were arrested for planning to assassinate an Iranian expert.

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Iranian officials said on Tuesday that the "Mossad-linked spies and terrorists" were trying to "identify and assassinate one of our nation's experts and to bomb some of the nation's installations using professionally made technical tools," according to the Jewish Telegraph Agency.

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The announcement comes after a report earlier this month that Iran's Intelligence Ministry had busted a network it described as "large and sophisticated", Israeli-backed, and planning attacks inside Iran. On April 10, Tehran revealed that after months of investigation "one of the biggest terror and sabotage networks of the Quds [Jerusalem] Occupying Regime [Israel]" as well as "operatives and ... criminal terrorists" had been uncovered in a sting operation, without giving many more details.

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Any operation can fail - poor opsec, better opponents or simple bad luck. Usually a combination of all three.

Or, of course, it could be a variant of the time honored Big Lie technique.

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Or, of course, it could be a variant of the time honored Big Lie technique.

Is that the same as randomly picking people who are not Iranian and calling them spies and terrorist?

[EnglishCon]

Or picking “inconvenient citizens” and labelling them.