WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump on Friday denied Iranian allegations that she had been spied by CIA spies, describing them as "false," while Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo said Iran "has a long history of lying." He said he saw Iranian actions as "pirate states" in response to Tehran's hijacking of the British ship. In Twitter tweets, Trump confirmed that Iran was promoting lies, and that its allegations were aimed at capturing CIA spies to create a media fuss.
The US president stressed that the economy of the Iranian regime is collapsing and its situation is getting worse over the days.
Iranian media reported yesterday that Tehran had arrested 17 CIA agents and sentenced some to death. State television quoted the intelligence ministry as saying it had dismantled the US spy network and arrested 17 suspects.
Some of the detainees were sentenced to death, the Fars news agency quoted a ministry official as saying.
"A spy network for the CIA was successfully dismantled on July 18," the director of the anti-espionage department at the Iranian intelligence ministry told reporters, without naming him. "Some of those who deliberately and deliberately condemned their death were sentenced to death, Others have long prison terms. "
The suspects were "employed in critical and critical positions, as well as in private sectors linked to these centers, to act as contractors or advisers," the official said.
He explained that 17 suspects were identified, all of them Iranians who moved independently of each other.
He pointed out that some of them were recruited into the CIA's "visa trap" for Iranians wanting to travel to the United States.
"Some of them were contacted when they applied for a visa, while others received visas before and were under pressure from the CIA to renew them," the counter-espionage manager said.
Iran announced last month that it had dismantled a spy network linked to the CIA. The Iranian official news agency IRNA quoted an intelligence official as saying, "Based on evidence from the US intelligence services, we finally found the new recruits recruited by the Americans and dismantled a new network .
The agency said that Tehran carried out the operation in cooperation with "foreign allies", without naming any country.
The news comes amid unprecedented tension between Iran on the one hand and between America and Britain against the backdrop of the targeting and kidnapping of oil tankers, and Tehran's threat to international shipping across the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran is at the top of the death records of children and dissidents as well as women, while some 160 countries around the world have begun abolishing or effectively abrogating the death penalty.
Tehran broke the world record of executions in 2017 by carrying out 50 percent of the world-wide executions, using the death penalty as a means of repression internally because of rising popular discontent.
For his part, said Mike Pompeo, Iran has a long history of lying. "I can not comment now on Iran's allegations of spying, but it has a long history of lying," Bombayo was quoted by Reuters as saying.
In an interview with Fox News yesterday, Pompeo stressed that Washington "does not want a war with Iran."
He stressed that previous US administrations had concluded bad deals with Iran and did nothing to stop North Korea's nuclear tests.
On the crisis of the tanker being held by Tehran, British Prime Minister Theresa Mae said Britain had called on Iran to immediately release British tanker Stena Empero and her crew, describing her detention in the Strait of Hormuz as illegal.
This came at a crisis meeting on the oil tanker being held by Iran, headed by May.
"The ship was held under false and illegal pretext, and the Iranians must release it and its crew immediately," the spokesman told reporters.
"Britain has a responsibility to keep its ships," Umebio said, adding that the United States should not act alone to preserve the safety of ships after the seizure of a British-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.
"The United States has a responsibility to play its part, but the world has a big role to play in this matter to keep maritime routes open," Pompeo said. He said he saw Iranian actions as "piracy of nations."
Britain is considering several options to increase pressure on Iran, but officials say the military option is not on the table.
Britain is also seeking diplomatic and operational support from key European allies in an effort to keep the Strait of Hormuz open to its cargo ships.
Iran seized the ship, Stina Empero, flying the British flag with 23 people on Friday night.
For its part, announced the British cargo room, the day before yesterday, that Iran's seizure of the tanker violated international law.