Tehran – Iranian judicial spokesman Asgal Jahangir says two British citizens who were recently arrested in the country’s southeastern city of Kelman have been accused of spying for the Western intelligence agency .
A judicial spokesman announced Wednesday that arrests had been made in conjunction with security agencies by the intelligence agency of the Islamic Revolutionary Security Force (IRGC) in Kerman province.
According to Jahangil, the two suspects identified as Craig and Lindsay Foreman were run under the guise of conducting research and research work, collecting secretly classified information in multiple states. . The investigation revealed links to secret agencies associated with Western intelligence reporting agencies.
The British government has confirmed the identity of the individuals detained, and last week, Iran’s British ambassador Hugo Shorter met with them at Carman’s prosecutor’s office. The meeting was held at the request of the British Embassy and was facilitated by Iranian judicial authorities in cooperation with security officials.
This is not the first time Iranian security forces have arrested an individual suspected of being a Western spy disguised as tourists and researchers. Over the past decade, authorities have arrested two people to film sensitive military sites in remote border states, detained another person to collect soil samples near nuclear facilities in the desert, and similar actions He then detained others.
Iranian intelligence agency can usually quickly identify links to foreign intelligence agency. However, the Western states have consistently denied that any of the arrested people are spies without dealing with the individual’s exposed relationships. They also explain why tourists and researchers choose to gather information about remote military or nuclear facilities rather than spending time at countless tourists, historical and cultural sites in Iran. I’m refraining from doing so.