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Iran has exposed a U.S. cyberespionage network run by the CIA and arrested spies in several countries, Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, stressed on June 17, according to Iran’s Mehr news agency.
Shamkhani said that further details would be published in the “near future.” He added that Iran and some of its allies have formed an “international anti-spying network” against the US.
The secretary of the Supreme National Security Council said Iran’s Intelligence Ministry would publish “related videos and confessions in the near future.”
“One of the most complicated CIA cyberespionage networks that had an important role in the CIA’s operations in different countries was exposed by the Iranian intelligence agencies a while ago and was dismantled,” he said.
“We provided the information on the exposed network to some other allied countries in which it had been operating which resulted in the exposing and dismantling of the US intelligence officers network and arrest and conviction of some CIA agents in different countries.”
The remarks were made amid heightened tensions between Iran and Washington:
