Seventeen people were arrested, a senior intelligence official told foreign media in Tehran. Iran has also accused Trump and his administration of lying about its operations related to Tehran, including over US statements that it shot down an Iranian drone last week. Iranian officials have identified the CIA agents who had recruited the suspects as diplomats based in Turkey, Zimbabwe and Finland. The show identified the alleged members of the cell and contained what the network said were confessions by the accused, whose faces were blurred and voices distorted. The alleged spies were trained by the CIA to gather classified information from sensitive locations in Iran, including military bases, nuclear facilities and economic centers, the official said.

Source: Taipei Times July 22, 2019 15:56 UTC