Foreign intel agencies startled by Iran’s busts of terrorist networks: Iranian intelligence minister

TEHRAN,July 7(MNA) - Iran`s Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi said on Friday that the Intelligence Ministry’s recent operations, which led to the arrests of members of two major terrorist networks, have startled the CIA, Mossad, MI6, and the intelligence agencies of Germany, France, and certain regional countries. “Two major assassination and bombing networks, which had been established with the support of and coordination between (certain) intelligence services of the world and the region, have been broken up. These two networks (had) relations with MI6, the CIA, Mossad, France, Germany, and a number of regional countries, which had teamed up with each other to carry out terrorist actions and bombings. But six months of efforts made by (Iranian intelligence forces) created confusion among these services,” Moslehi stated. On June 17, Moslehi announced that 20 people had been arrested in connection with the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists. On April 10, the Intelligence Ministry announced that key members of an Israeli terrorist network had been identified and arrested in Iran. On the Intelligence Ministry’s campaign against the groups that are seeking to undermine the Islamic system, Moslehi said the “seditionists and counter-revolutionaries” will not be allowed to repeat the incidents which occurred after the 2009 presidential election. He added, “Certain leaders of sedition and elements linked to the seditionists assumed that they could return to the scene and create a challenge to the system through infiltration and the establishment of connections, but we have (intelligence) supremacy over these groups in a way that the people will not even feel a sense of confrontation.”