The Iranian Ministry of Security announced in a statement issued this morning, Friday, that it has identified a large number of agents from the Israeli Mossad in 28 countries. The Ministry's statement indicated that, during the largest espionage and counter-espionage operation launched against Israeli security and intelligence agencies, an unprecedented amount of information regarding the activities of these agencies was obtained and has been immediately analyzed and utilized.
The statement added that a series of sensitive security operations had been conducted by the personnel of the Iranian Ministry of Security, involving espionage and counter-espionage operations as well as offensive operations, utilizing various methods for information gathering. Sensitive information regarding Israeli agencies was acquired during these operations. Along with this intelligence and security data, "specific information was also reached concerning some of the most important military facilities, secret arms factories, and non-military strategic industries in Israel, through a series of large, multi-stage operations carried out by the Iranian Ministry of Security."
The Iranian Ministry of Security confirmed that "the disclosure of details regarding this collected information is subject to security and precautionary laws, particularly concerning the individuals involved in these operations both within and outside Palestinian territories. Additionally, a large volume of information obtained can be utilized for intelligence and operational purposes, which will be taken into consideration when making decisions regarding this information that is now in our possession."
The statement further noted, "We beseech the Almighty to grant final victory to the heroic Palestinian defenders who drafted the great and eternal Al-Aqsa Flood operation and inflicted irremediable military and security blows on the dying Zionist entity. We briefly announce that one of the significant achievements of the mentioned complex operation is the identification of dozens of agents and terrorist elements linked to the racist Zionist entity in 28 countries across three continents: Asia, Africa, and Europe. Regarding these agents, we note the following:
1. A number of spies have been identified in Tehran and several Iranian provinces, and they have been subjected to legal actions or placed under surveillance; the identities of some Iranian spies (Mossad agents) residing outside the country have also been determined, and decisions will be made based on the circumstances surrounding each one, as well as the level of relations between the Iranian Ministry of Security and the security agencies of the countries where the spies reside.
2. Countries that exchange significant and influential information with Iran have been provided with information about the foreign spies active within their territories, and the relevant security agencies (in those countries) have arrested these spies or recruited them for counter-intelligence, following their monitoring and confirmation of the information received regarding them, and in accordance with the counter-espionage strategies specific to those countries. Clearly, our disclosure of the active spies in other countries is subject to special considerations.
3. Upon examining the backgrounds of the spies active in the aforementioned 28 countries, it became evident that some of these individuals had voluntarily collaborated with the Mossad and betrayed their homelands. What increases the regret is that the Mossad, in order to test the sincerity of these collaborators' intentions, forced them into various treacherous operations against the interests of their homelands and the safety of their fellow citizens.
4. In addition to this aforementioned method, the Zionist espionage agencies employed various diabolical methods, exploiting public spaces used by citizens, such as virtual space, social networks, and recruitment and immigration websites, to identify individuals while traveling outside the country and learn their weaknesses. They initiated contact with those who were trapped under false pretenses and subsequently gathered information about them or tasked them with carrying out sabotage operations. In this context, within the documents obtained, several thugs involved in some of the terrorist operations executed in Iran were identified and arrested, with announcements about this to follow later.
The ministry indicated that "given the ongoing verification of the information obtained, if the deceived individuals who fell into the trap of collaborating with the Zionists in any form inform the Iranian Ministry of Security of this, the ministry will provide maximum assistance to reduce their legal sentences as much as possible."
