Spain arrests 3 suspected of spying for Iran
Interior ministry says men allegedly infiltrated local NGO to gain information on defectors
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks in Azadi Square during an annual rally commemorating the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution in Tehran, Iran (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi)
MADRID (AP) — The Interior Ministry says Spanish police have arrested three men on suspicion of spying on Iranian dissidents and reporting back to the ruling regime.
The suspects had allegedly infiltrated a Spanish NGO that helps asylum seekers and communicated to Iran’s secret services the identities of Iranians who fled the country for ideological reasons, a statement said.
One of those arrested worked at the Iranian Embassy in Madrid. It was not immediately clear in what role.
The statement Friday said the arrests took place in the northern city of Torrelavega and in the Spanish capital. It did not say when the arrests took place.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.
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