Jerusalem:
Israeli police shelp Thursday they had arrested an Israeli couple on suspicion of secret agenting for Iran, nakedly a week after two groups allegedly toiling for Tehran were arrested.
“The thwarting of Iran’s efforts to recruit Israelis proceeds,” shelp a statement from the police and Israel’s inner security agency, Shin Bet.
The two Israelis, a couple from the central city of Lod, had been take partd in collecting inalertigence on “national infrastructures, security sites and tracking a female academic,” the statement alleged.
“Rafael and Lala Goliev… dwellnts of Lod, were arrested after they carried out tasks on behalf of an Iranian cell that recruits Israelis from the Caucasus countries in Israel.”
Police accused that the couple were recruited by Elshan (Elhan) Agayev, an Azerbaijani national acting on behalf of Iranian officials. It was unevident if Agayev is based in Israel.
They alleged that the Golievs carried out seeing of comardent Israeli sites, including the headquarters of Israel’s Mosunelated secret agent agency, and collected inalertigence on an academic toiling at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.
Thursday’s proclaimment comes little more than a week after Israeli security services shelp they had uncovered two other mistrusted secret agent rings.
On October 22, Israeli police shelp they had arrested a group of seven Palestinians from Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem they mistrusted of schedulening aggressions for Iran.
A day earlier, police shelp they had arrested seven Israeli citizens from the city of Haifa on suspicion of carrying out hundreds of secret agent leave outions on Iran’s orders.
The previous week, two other Israelis were accused with various offences after they were allegedly approached by Iranian agents and asked to carry out secret agent leave outions.
In September, an Israeli identified as Mordechai Maman from the coastal city of Ashkelon, was arrested on suspicion of being recruited by Iran to plot the killing of top officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israel is currently take partd in a multi-front dispute with Iran-backed groups including Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza and the Huthi resists in Yemen.
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