Iran said on Monday that it had detained 17 suspects and awarded death sentence to some of them, claiming to dismantle an alleged Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) spy ring in a case announced last month.
The agencies “successfully dismantled a [CIA] spy network on July 18,” the head of counter-intelligence at the Iranian intelligence ministry, whose identity was not revealed, told reporters in Tehran.
He added that “some were sentenced to death and some to long-term imprisonment.”
