(Daily Mail) Seventeen alleged CIA spies have been arrested in Iran and some of them will face the death penalty, Tehran claimed today in the latest flashpoint in a worsening Middle East crisis.
Iran's security chiefs say they have smashed an American spy ring which had planted U.S. agents at 'sensitive sites' in the country's nuclear, military and cyber facilities.
The 17 suspects are all Iranians, some of them recruited by a 'visa trap' in which the CIA would target Iranian nationals as they applied to visit America, Iran claims.
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