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Report: Iranian Lawmaker Claims 12 CIA Agents Detained

Iranian Lawmaker Says 12 CIA Agents Arrested | Parviz Sorouri

Iranian Lawmaker Parviz Sorouri (Image Credit: Press TV)

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An influential Iran parliamentarian has said that the country has arrested 12 agents of the American Central Intelligence Agency, the country’s official IRNA news agency reported.

Parviz Sorouri, who sits on the powerful committee of foreign policy and national security, that the alleged agents had been operating in coordination with Israel’s Mossad and other regional agencies, and targeted the country’s military and its nuclear program.

“The U.S. and Zionist regime’s espionage apparatuses were trying to damage Iran both from inside and outside with a heavy blow, using regional intelligence services,” Sorouri was quoted as having said on Wednesday.

Iranian Lawmaker Says 12 CIA Agents Arrested | Parviz Sorouri

“Fortunately, with swift reaction by the Iranian intelligence department, the actions failed to bear fruit,” Sorouri said.

The lawmaker did not specify the nationality of the alleged agents, nor when or where they they had been arrested.

Iran periodically announces the capture or execution of alleged U.S. or Israeli spies, and often no further information is released.

This current announcement follows the unravelling by Lebanon’s Hezbollah of a CIA spy ring in that country. Hezbollah reportedly works closely with Iran.

Hezbollah’s longtime leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, boasted in June on television he had unmasked at least two CIA spies who had infiltrated the ranks of the organization. Though the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon officially denied the accusation, American officials conceded that Nasrallah wasn’t lying and that Hezbollah had subsequently methodically picked off CIA informants.

The United States and its allies suspect Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapon program, a charge Iran denies.

Comments (33)

  • oldsailor7294
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 11:45pm

    JCANNON You must be talking about the great military plans we had for WWll, when we were forced into the war, fought our well planned battles,(killed the enemy till there were no more to kill.) and ended the war by dropping the atom bomb forcing the Japanese to see the uselessness of continuing the war, and saving millions of Japanese life’s who would have died from the invasion, such a well planned war and a well planned out exit strategy. Most wars are not well planned, or have any exit strategy, they are simply fought and won, or fought and lost.

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  • garbagecanlogic
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 6:58pm

    Which one of Barry’s idiots leaked info this time?

    The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
    The U.N. Out Of The U.S.

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    • shawncalford
      Posted on November 27, 2011 at 1:27pm

      Exactly my thoughts. Someone in Barry’s socialist glee club has been singing like a canary.

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  • Lone-Wolf
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:24pm

    Iran needs to waterboard them, to get as much info out of them as they can. It really is no big deal,, after all, it’s not torture.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 5:44pm

      They will probably beat them with rubber hoses among other things. If I were one of the spies I would prefer the waterboarding to what they are going to do to them.

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    • TDOM
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 5:53pm

      The Iranians would not even consider water-boarding because its NOT TORTURE – plugging your jewels into 110 volts thats torture – cutting fingers off and stopping the blood with a cigar lighter thats torture – water-boarding thats un-comfortable – WAKE UP YOU SHELTERED PEOPLE

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 7:16pm

      Tazir Hakem-e Shariah

      http://stop.torturing.us/2009/04/iran-tortures-in-prison.html

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 7:28pm

      The person masquerading behind the macho sounding post name “Lone-Wolf” with a fierce looking picture of a snarling wolf is a liberal. I am betting he is a pushover.

      ‘If I Had to Trust One Person It Would be…Bachmann’: Beck Talks GOP Primary

      November 24, 2011 at 8:11am
      Allow me to profile a Glenn Beck neocon,
      1. You’ve never served in the Military. (Done that)
      2. You’ve never been in a fist fight. (Done that)
      3. 50% of you have never even shot a bb gun. (M-16)
      4. You think were a nation blessed by God, while ignoring the 50 million abortions.

      Yes we are blessed (or were). the abortions are the work of the libtocracy.

      5. You say your “Pro-Life” while adovating the bombing and starving of women and children.

      You save the innocent & persecute the guilty. Not too hard to understand. If you can’t pull the trigger on Adolph Hitler or his modern day equivalents then you are an evil as great as they are.

      6. You’ve never even looked at a Free Weight Set.
      7. You try to act tough but you’re afraid of 3rd world goat herders with Kalashnikovs and will give up your rights under the guise of security.
      8. You’ve never taken a Martial Arts Class.
      9. You want to “Fight them over there. So we don’t fight them here.” unfortunatly that involves someone elses son‘s and daughter’s to do it and not yourself.
      10. You support Israel as a so called Christian. But are to lazy and stupid to find out, Israel denies citizenship to

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 7:49pm

      5. You say your “Pro-Life” while adovating the bombing and starving of women and children.

      Yo can’t bomb an SS division or a Republican Guard division? If you say can’t then you are clueless.

      6. You’ve never even looked at a Free Weight Set.

      7. You try to act tough but you’re afraid of 3rd world goat herders with Kalashnikovs and will give up your rights under the guise of security. (See #1 & #2)

      8. You’ve never taken a Martial Arts Class. (Done that x2)
      9. You want to “Fight them over there. So we don’t fight them here.” unfortunatly that involves someone elses son‘s and daughter’s to do it and not yourself.

      10. You support Israel as a so called Christian. But are to lazy and stupid to find out, Israel denies citizenship to Jews that are Christian.

      The Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order) 5763 is an Israeli law first passed on 31 July, 2003 and most recently extended in June 2008

      If Israel would become a Muslim majority nation, jews would cease to exist. Not only do you know that, you hope that it happens.

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    • techengineer11
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 12:32pm

      Walkabout: I believe the Wolf’s points speak for themself. Pretty straight forward to me. I doubut serioulsy that the Wolf is a liberal.. I believe that a lot of people on the Blaze who like to call themselves Republicans are actually liberal themsleves… But they are blinded with propaganda.. Thehy’ve drank too much Beck juice you know?

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    • shawncalford
      Posted on November 27, 2011 at 1:37pm

      Lone-Wolfe, appropriate handle. You must often be alone. There is no comparison. The mentality of yof you cry-babies would would change if the information needed involved saving the life of one of your loved-ones. Deny it; as we know you will. But your kind of thinking would have us dead and occupied by our enemies today. Why don‘t you do us a favor and light up another blunt and see if you can’t locate the next woodstock and leave ‘Saving your butt” to the big girls and boys.

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  • seattletone
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:13pm

    maybe some paid informants, but NOT American spies- sorry- fiction!

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  • seattletone
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:10pm

    They don’t have 12 spies! Fiction! If they did you bet the spies pictures would be posted all over the news with Iran wacko clerics standing over them. no pic’s? Yeah sure you caught 12 American spies, sure!

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  • SamIamTwo
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 11:29am

    Iran trying to take attention off of themselves and wackjob.

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    • techengineer11
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 11:56am

      techengineer11: And remember we are the Big Satan while Israel is the little Satan.. If Israel falls America falls. America is dependent upon Israel for its survival and that’s the bottom line.. Glenn Beck said it so it’s got to be true. And FOX News is very concerned about Iran so obviously we have to take them out regardless if the operation risks another World War.. It’s worth it because if Iran get nukes then the world ends immediately! And God told me that he chose the Jews to rule the world so we must worship them and protect them.. You got a problem with a Jew you better be ready to come through FOX News, CNN, MSNBC, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity.. etc and you better be prepared to come through me because I stand for Israel! Hoo Rah! Go Israel, Jews #1!

      All you dopes undersand now? You brain dead idiotic deceieved mornons!

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  • GUNNSUP
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 10:33am

    Not believing it…an excuse to create more tension…..This=false flag by US Govt…..

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 10:42am

      They want hostages just before being attacked! Saddam did the same thing just before we kicked off the 1st Gulf War. I don’t think this will derail plans for the attack. Iran! Your regime is almost over.

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  • TheWholeTruth
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 10:31am

    Hey Blaze! Why don’t you report on the US Carrier USS GW Bush being stationed in Syrian coastal waters???? Or that the Libyan rebels, oh sorry, ‘freedom fighters,’ have imprisoned 7000 people? Or, maybe even that the EU is demanding the right to dictate national budgets of member countries? Come on! Keep up!

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  • lynnissmart
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 10:30am

    Sorry day for the USA….

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    • Salamander
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 10:46am

      Sorry day for the CIA! Somebody mishandled these assets, and they (the assets) will pay the price! Might be time for a new “Intelligence Czar”! (Kidding about the ‘Czar’, but heads should roll at the CIA!)

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    • SFYMP
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:09pm

      People really should research about the CIA, they don’t lose 12 agents unless they want/need to. Try researching the uncanny coincidences of where bambams mom, and grandparents were involved in numerous CIA ops in indonesia and pakistan. The ops by the CIA haven’t always been in our best interest. There’s a lot more than we can imagine. Follow the money.

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  • whatthecrazy
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 10:25am

    Liars dealing with liars how festive,is there anybody out there we can trust?

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  • MrKnowItAll
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 10:25am

    Those Iranians. Just such nice people. By the way I have some really nice Swamp Land I’m going to let go really cheap.

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  • 13th Imam
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 10:19am

    Used to be that Sheik Hassan Nasrallah would suffer an unfortunate accident. Snow is probably correct. Barry probably had the dime dropped by one of his progressive operatives on Bush Era agents. Much like Fast and Furious Barry will be hiding behind a man, woman or child, trying not to be outed as the fearless leader He is still just PRESENT.

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  • thekuligs
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 10:17am

    Sounds like crap to me, it says who denied the accusations but not who confirmed them. I say garbage.

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  • rienheart
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 10:11am

    Someone has Loose Lips. I wonder who.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 9:58am

    Okay so the question is simple, who from Obama on down sold our own out?

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  • JLGunner
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 9:43am

    and so the chess match continues….

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    • YepImaConservative
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 10:43am

      Depends on who is playing the match. Obama (the left) and Ron Paul (the other left) shouldn’t be allowed to be near the board.

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    • JLGunner
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 11:43am

      Ron Paul wouldn’t pull his head out of the sand. He would rely on all those diplomats nsitting around just waiting for something to do to chat it up.

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    • jcannon98188
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:38pm

      Do not mistake a man who loves peace, for a man afraid of action. If Ron Paul needed to, he would use the full strength of the United States Military. But he would do the smart thing, have clear and defined goals and an exit strategy. You know, basic Military Strategy?

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    • riseandshine
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 5:00pm

      JCannon…..Thumbs Up!!

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