{"id":16319,"date":"2019-04-19T11:55:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T11:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=16319"},"modified":"2019-04-19T11:55:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T11:55:42","slug":"intel-minister-iran-identified-290-cia-spies-made-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/intel-minister-iran-identified-290-cia-spies-made-arrests\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel minister: Iran identified 290 CIA spies, made arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"
Iranian Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi speaks before weekly Friday prayers sermons in the Iranian capital of Tehran on April 19, 2019. (Photo by IRNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Iran has identified 290 CIA\u00a0agents\u00a0across different countries, forcing the US to form a special committee to reassess its\u00a0cloak-and-dagger operations,\u00a0Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi says.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

“CIA operatives in these countries were identified and arrested and the contacts of the US\u00a0intelligence agency with its sources were disrupted\u00a0in such a way that a committee to assess the failure was set up in America,”\u00a0Alavi said\u00a0during\u00a0Friday prayers in Tehran.<\/p>\n

He touched on\u00a0what numerous US spy experts have\u00a0said about the major intelligence defeat, including one who called it\u00a0“one of the most catastrophic intelligence failures since the September 11” attacks in 2001.<\/p>\n

Alavi said his ministry has\u00a0shifted from focusing on defensive counter-intelligence to conducting offensive operations. He said\u00a0details of the operations\u00a0would be publicized soon.<\/p>\n

A similar successful counter operation was carried out against Britain’s\u00a0MI6\u00a0intelligence service, he said, adding detailed information about it will\u00a0also be made public in the near future when deemed appropriate.<\/p>\n

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PressTV-Iran arrests Daesh-linked terrorists plotting attacks<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Iranian security forces have arrested seven individuals linked to the Daesh group before they could carry out any act of terror in the country, Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi says.<\/a><\/div>\n

Iran has been successful in protecting itself from the spillover of terrorism and foreign-backed conflict \u2014 constant features of life in a number of regional countries \u2014 due to high vigilance by its intelligence and security forces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iranian Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi speaks before weekly Friday prayers sermons in the Iranian capital of Tehran on April 19, 2019. (Photo by IRNA) Iran has identified 290 CIA\u00a0agents\u00a0across different countries, forcing the US to form a special committee to reassess its\u00a0cloak-and-dagger operations,\u00a0Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi says.\u00a0 “CIA operatives in these countries were identified and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16321,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16319\/revisions\/16321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}