Iran recruiting Israeli spies

Jerusalem Post:

Iran has been making concerted efforts to recruit Jewish and Arab Israelis as spies against Israel, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Service) revealed Tuesday.

According to the report, Iranians have, over the past two years, been targeting Israelis of Iranian origin who traveled to Iran to visit relatives.

Counterintuitively, Iran is not considered an enemy state by Israel, and Israelis can travel freely to the country.

On Tuesday afternoon, Labor MK Ami Ayalon told Channel One that the reports show that Iran sees Israel as a threat.

He added that Israel's classified defense information is digitized and kept on computer systems, and that these systems would be the Iranians' primary targets.

In the past two years, over 100 Israelis have applied for visas to Iran, 10 of whom were questioned by the Shin Bet and discovered to have been recruited as spies by the Iranians.

"The Iranians are collecting intensive intelligence on the state of Israel," a senior Shin Bet official told reporters.

Iran sees Israelis who travel to the country as potential spies, who can gather intelligence against Israel.

The Shin Bet said that Iran's intelligence gathering focused on three main points: Israel's decision-making echelon; Israeli military and defense establishments; and the strengths and weaknesses of Israeli society.

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From the interrogation of the ten suspected spies, it emerged that Iranian intelligence officers disguised as diplomats work at the Iranian Consulate in Turkey. Israelis who arrive are taken into a separate room and questioned for hours about their military background, their families, political issues in Israel and possible connections to defense officials.

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Iran is a determined enemy that is exploring every opportunity to defeat its perceived enemies including Israel and the US. It has more difficulty getting into Israel than the US because of it own bigotry. The Turkey operation works because they will not except anyone with an Israeli passport or a stamp indicating they have been through Israel. An Israeli wishing to travel to Iran must go through the process in Turkey to get the papers he needs.

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