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Iran Busts Spy Team Infiltrating Oil Ministry

Iranian security forces disbanded a team which had infiltrated into the oil ministry to persuade the high-ranking managers into making wrong decisions.

“The security bodies have recently arrested members of a team who… tried to influence a number of oil ministry managers,” Senior Iranian legislator Hossein Ali Haji Deligani told FNA on Sunday, adding that the team played a key role in enemy’s puzzle.

He added that the team operated under a woman who had been able to influence 16 important and influential managers of the oil ministry to put off important decisions in the ministry and hit a blow to the country in the US economic war against Iran.

Haji Deligani also said that the 16 managers of the oil ministry also collaborated with the woman to make wrong decisions in line with enemies’ goals and against Iran’s national interests.

The development came after reports said on Saturday that a former employee of the Iranian Defense Ministry’s Aerospace Industries Organization was executed for carrying out espionage operations for the White House and the US spy agency (CIA).

The Judiciary Organization of the Armed Forces reported on Saturday Jalal Hajizavar was executed at Rajayee Shahr prison in Karaj in Western Tehran after being convicted by a military court.

He was dismissed nine years ago and had explicitly confessed that he had collaborated with the CIA and spied for the United States in return for money, it added.

According to the report, documents and spying equipment were discovered at his home.

It emphasized that all legal procedures had been observed during investigations into Hajizavar’s case while his spouse also received a 15-year prison term for taking part in espionage activities.

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani declared on Monday that the country had discovered and destroyed an extensive cyber network launched by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to spy on the country and a number of other states.

“It is interesting to know that a while ago, the Iranian intelligence apparatus discovered and cracked down on one of the most complicated cyber networks of the CIA which was used for cyber spying and was an important part of the CIA’s operational capacities in the countries targeted by the US,” Shamkhani said in an interview with the IRIB.

He added that given the cooperation between Iran and a large number of world states within the framework of counter-espionage at international level, Tehran had provided its partners with information about the CIA cyber network, which also led to the capture of the members of the network and its eventual annihilation in those countries.

Shamkhani said evidence was available on the operation of the CIA project, adding that parts of the case had also been revealed by the CIA before.

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