Iran announces arrests, death sentences as CIA spy ring busted

Iranian authorities said on Monday (July 22) that security agencies had arrested 17 suspects and sentenced some of them to death after dismantling a 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.

“Some were sentenced to death and some to long-term imprisonment.”