In first, Iran seems to confirm arrested Israeli ex-minister was its spy
'We brought under our control a member of a cabinet of a powerful country,' Tehran says, after earlier denying Israeli charges against Gonen Segev
By MICHAEL BACHNER
29 August 2018,
Gonen Segev, a former Israeli government minister indicted on suspicion of spying for Iran, is seen in the District Court in Jerusalem, July 5, 2018. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool Photo via AP)
In a rare statement, Iran’s intelligence minister on Tuesday seemed to confirm that an Israeli ex-minister arrested this year and charged with spying for Iran was in fact Tehran’s agent, after earlier denials.
“You have recently heard that we brought under our control a member of a cabinet of a powerful country,†Mahmoud Alavi told the semi-official ISNA news agency, according to Reuters.
Though he didn’t specify what country he was referring to, Iranian news sites and many commentators took that as a first admission of ties to former Israeli energy minister Gonen Segev, who was arrested in May and extradited from Equatorial Guinea to Israel.
Read more at: https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-first-iran-seems-to-confirm-arrested-israeli-ex-minister-was-its-spy/
That's amazing, for the world of espionage, this seems to say a member of the Israeli cabinet indeed, did spy for Iran. Note the name, Gonen Segev, sounds Russian or something like that, from that area of the world.
