Iran’s Intelligence Ministry said Saturday that its agents have arrested a person of Iranian origin on suspicion of spying for the United States.
The ministry said in a statement broadcast on state TV that Iran’s secret services identified the suspect at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. Bagram is the main base for American and other international forces outside Kabul.
“The individual was put under the watch of Iran’s intelligence and was being pursued after crossing into our country and arrested simultaneously as he began his espionage mission,” the statement said.
It said the suspect, which it didn’t identify by name, sought to infiltrate into Iran’s secret services and funnel false information to deceive Iranian intelligence. The report alleged the attempted infiltration was part of a complicated intelligence battle the U.S. has launched against Iran.
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This isn’t real newsworthy, as Iran is always claiming they have arrested American spies. If the claims were true, it would mean that the CIA is now the leading employer in Iran, and Iran needs to stay hostile to the United States to avoid massive unemployment if the CIA stopped hiring Iranian spies.