70 Spies Serving Time in Tehran

Tehran’s prosecutor said as many as 70 convicts are serving time over spying activities in the province’s prisons for compromising sensitive national intelligence. “These people betrayed the country’s nuclear, military, political, social and cultural intelligence to the enemies,” Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi was also quoted as saying by Mizan Online on Tuesday as cited by Press TV. He said the country’s security apparatus was on the watch for any possible threat. Dolatabadi enumerated some of the threats facing the Islamic Republic as attempts to create unrest and social discontent as well as plots to carry out bomb attacks and infiltrate into “the pillars of the establishment.” Iranian security forces have in recent months busted several terror groups, foiling their plots to wreak havoc in different parts of the country. A number of terrorists have been arrested and large amounts of explosives and bomb-making materials have been confiscated from them.