TEHRAN – In less than a week, the Israeli regime has reportedly indicted another soldier on charges of spying for Iran, including transferring classified information at military facilities to “Iranian personnel.”
Israeli news site Ynet reported on Thursday that 22-year-old Rafael Rouveni was charged with communicating with Iranian intelligence agents via the Telegram application.
“Prosecutors have charged the 22-year-old soldier from Beersheba with having contact with his Iranian handlers during his military service and performing tasks in exchange for compensation,” the news site wrote.
The report emphasized that the case was being investigated by Israel’s Shin Bet intelligence service and the police’s crime unit, adding that Reuveni carried out several tasks, including filming local parks and bus stops near his home, recording activities at shopping malls, and gathering intelligence.
“Mr. Rouveni shared information about the military base, including personnel estimates and emergency procedures, and promised to update personnel if the base went into wartime readiness. He was also asked to provide the names of other individuals who could be recruited by Iranian intelligence,” Y-Net quoted in the indictment.
This follows the arrest a few days ago of another Israeli spy allegedly working for Iran.
Shimon Azarzar, a 27-year-old from Kiryat Yam, was charged on Sunday with security crimes for contacting Iranian intelligence agents and carrying out security duties under their direction, i24news reported.
The defendant “exploited” his girlfriend, who serves in the Israeli military reserves, in order to obtain various information about the Israeli military and air bases.
Shin Bet and police investigations revealed that Shimon Azarzar maintained contacts with Iranian intelligence agents for more than a year and carried out various security-related tasks at their direction. In this connection, he sent photos and locations of secret Israeli bases and even offered to provide his personnel with important information from Israeli military bases.
A similar incident occurred in early November, when Israeli media reported that a 23-year-old Israeli national from Tiberias was detained on suspicion of spying for Iran in exchange for money.
“Yosef Ain Eli, 23, is the latest Israeli to be charged with espionage since the start of the Gaza war, in which he is alleged to have received thousands of shekels to collect information on Iranian agents at a hotel, Israeli Defense Force soldiers, and senior officials,” Y Net News reported.
“He was arrested in September following a joint investigation by Shin Bet intelligence and the police’s Rahab 433 Serious Crimes Unit,” the report added.
The Tel Aviv regime has arrested a number of people in recent years on suspicion of spying for Iran. Iran’s Information Minister Esmail Khatib recently said that a “treasure trove” of information containing millions of pages of diverse and valuable data about the Israeli regime has been transferred to Iran.
“These documents contain complete information on the regime’s previous and current projects, retrofitting and reprocessing projects for old nuclear weapons, joint ventures with the United States and some European countries, as well as the management structure of nuclear weapons and anything related to nuclear weapons,” the Iranian minister said.
He pointed out that Israel’s nuclear and military establishment and the general public cooperate with Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and share large amounts of documents with Iran.
“The motivation behind this cooperation is two-fold: the first is the acquisition of material incentives and funds, and the second is hatred of the corrupt and criminal Israeli prime minister,” he explained.