Iran Revolutionary Guards arrest 12 alleged Israel operatives

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have arrested a dozen people for allegedly being operatives for Israel and planning attacks against Iran’s security apparatus, as Tehran aims to further crack down on potential security breaches after months of recent instability.

According to the IRGC, on Sunday, it arrested 12 alleged operatives of a network of individuals conducting surveillance and sabotage operations for Israel, apprehending them in six different provinces throughout Iran.

In a statement by the Corps, it said that the arrests came “As the Zionist regime and their Western backers, most notably the United States, have not succeeded in their sinister goals against the people of Gaza and Lebanon”. It asserted that those forces “are now seeking to spread the crisis to Iran with a series of actions planned against our country’s security”.

The arrests were notably conducted at a time when apparent breaches in Iran’s security apparatus have been rampant in recent months, with reports in August having stated that Israeli intelligence even infiltrated the depths of the IRGC by recruiting some of its personnel to help in the assassination of late Palestinian Hamas chief, Ismail Haniyeh.

There have also been further security breaches since then, including within the vast network of Iran’s proxy group’s and allied militias throughout the region, which was especially seen when Israeli intelligence managed to provide Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon and Syria with pagers – and other devices such as walkie-talkies – that exploded throughout much of last week, killing dozens of people and wounding thousands more.

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