Eight held for suspected links to Mossad in Iran

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday they had arrested eight people suspected of trying to transmit the coordinates of sensitive sites and details about senior military figures to Israel’s Mossad, Iranian state media reported.

They are accused of having provided the information to the Mossad spy agency during Israel’s air war on Iran in June, when it attacked Iranian nuclear facilities and killed top military commanders as well as civilians in the worst blow to the Islamic Republic since the 1980s war with Iraq.

Iran retaliated with barrages of missiles on Israeli military sites, infrastructure and cities. The United States entered the war on June 22 with strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. A Guards statement alleged that the suspects had received specialised training from Mossad via online platforms.

It said they were apprehended in north-eastern Iran before carrying out their plans, and that materials for making launchers, bombs, explosives and booby traps had been seized.