Publish Date: 27 November 2019 - 19:34

Tehran, Nov 27, IRNA – Managing Director of counter-espionage department of Iranian Intelligence Forces said some of the elements affiliated with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who were trying to gather information from recent riots and transfer them abroad have been arrested.

The mentioned elements who were gathering information with CIA budget in the form of citizen journalists in various countries have earlier been monitored, he said.

They received orders to attend riots and to prepare exact reports, especially videos, he noted.    

Accordingly, six of them were arrested at riots and two others who had gathered information were busted before leaving the country.

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