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On January 12, the Israeli Security Agency, Shin Bet, announced that it had arrested five Jewish Israelis suspected of assisting an Iranian operative in gathering intelligence and making connections in Israel.
The five suspects, four women and one man, are all Jewish immigrants from Iran or the descendants of Iranian immigrants.
The alleged Iranian operative, who maintained profiles on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, pretended to be a Jewish man named Rambod Namdar.
According to the Shin Bet, some of the suspects told investigators that they were aware that Namdar may have been an Iranian intelligence operative, but continued their communications with him anyway.
In exchange for thousands of dollars, the five suspects took photographs of strategically significant sites in Israel, including the US Consulate in Tel Aviv, attempted to form relationships with politicians and provided information about security arrangements at different sites.
The security agency said that two of the suspects even attempted to convince their sons to join a Military Intelligence unit of the Israeli Defense Forces at the direction of the Iranian operative.
“With their grave actions, those involved put themselves, their families and innocent Israeli citizens at risk, as their information was transferred to Iranian intelligence, in addition to the information that was handed over about Israeli sites and American sites in Israel, which would be used for terrorist purposes,” a senior Shin Bet official said in a statement.
None of the suspects had access to significant classified material. However, the case reveals some serious flaws in Israel’s security.
Last November, an Israeli man who worked as a house cleaner for Defense Minister Benny Gantz was arrested for offering to spy on the minister on behalf of Iran. The man contacted representatives of the Iranian Black Shadow group.
Oh no, they are prosecuting Jews! Anti Semites!
Seriously idiots, what good is some pictures taken from public places that anybody can go? Google Map, Google Earth and Google Streets basically do the same..
Anyway, losing an asset is very hard for the handler, or so I’m told. What do I know about spy $#it?
Good. If true, they should be executed
Joos parroting Hitler, so cute.
Proud Jew Firstly you are a zionist FAKE JEW AND ALL THE PEOPLE CLAIMING TO JEWS IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE ARE FAKE JEWS NO CREDIBLE RESEARCH DOCUMENT EXIST TO PROVE THAT HOLOCAUST EVER TOOK PLACE
Zionist cock-handlers will cry and rage 🤗
BUT IRAN NEVER DOES THAT! ONLY MOSSAD DOES THAT! IRANIANS ARE ANGELS! SF MAKES ZIONIST PROPAGANDA!
Never trust anything a joo says
😁 Israel and the US are doing the same in iran!!
They will sit a long time in prison, the public here is very mad at them. Helping our bigest nemesis, who seeks to destroy us. In Iran they hang spies, too bad we don’t have it here. Somethign we do need to learn from you Garga.
I don’t know if SF report on it or not. But there have been a lot of hacking groups attacking Zion.