Many Israelis Ready To Spy For Iran, IRGC Commander Says
Many Israelis Ready To Spy For Iran, IRGC Commander Says
“Many people” in Israel have “a lot of motives” to cooperate with Tehran, said a top commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Mohammad Reza Naghdi, on a TV show on Friday.
Naqdi expressed his claim nearly two years after a former Israeli minister was convicted of “espionage” for Iran.
Naqdi went even further by boasting that the clergy-dominated Iran was “closer to Israel” than “imagined” and that one day, it would “suddenly fall apart.”
In August 2019, the Islamic Republic Minister of Intelligence, Mahmoud Alavi, also claimed in a TV show that an Israeli cabinet member had been “under control” of his agents.
Alavi, a black-turbaned cleric, was referring to the case of Israel’s former Minister of Energy, Gonen Segev.
64-year-old from 1995 to 1996, was sentenced to ten years in prison for “espionage and transfer of information to an enemy country” in an Israeli court. Israel announced Segev had been in contact with Iranian embassy officials in Nigeria, where he lived as a physician. Later, Segev traveled to Iran twice, using his German passport. In the heat of the information and intelligence war between Tel Aviv and Tehran, the Israeli security service in recent years has reportedly arrested several Palestinians and other Arabs for allegedly “collaborating,” and “spying” for Iran. There have also been reports of the arrest of spies affiliated with the Israeli government in Iran. In May 2015, a Paris-based member of “Iranian national-religious Coalition,” Reza Alijani, wrote in a report on the Rooz Online website that the heads of the Israeli desk at Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and the IRGC’s fearsome Intelligence Organization had been “arrested on charges of spying for Israel.”
