The Turkish intelligence and security services arrested 8 people, including two agents of Iran, while they were trying to smuggle a former Iranian military to Tehran through Van province in eastern Turkey.
And Anadolu Agency quoted security sources, today, Wednesday, as saying that one of the two arrested agents holds Turkish citizenship, and the sources added that Iranian intelligence elements worked to form a network in Van state with a budget of $30,000 to arrest the ex-military and transfer him to Iran.
MİT ve Emniyet Van'da 2'si İran ajanı 8 kişilik şebekeyi çökertti https://t.co/vLvMuLTzqV pic.twitter.com/WnSAAZCrye
— ANADOLU AJANSI (@anadoluajansi) October 13, 2021
The Iranian intelligence network offered the wife of the former Iranian military $10,000 to help them arrest him, and the wife received threats to harm her family, who lives in Iran, if she refused the offer.
When Turkish intelligence revealed that two people from Iran were sent to Van province to transport the former Iranian military in a car on September 24, the security authorities arrested the network elements, consisting of an Iranian and a Turkish citizen who entered the residence of the Iranian military, as well as 6 Turkish citizens who were arrested. within the security process.
The Turkish authorities did not reveal the identity of the two suspects or the reasons behind the attempt to kidnap the former Iranian military official.
It is noteworthy that in February 2021, Turkey briefly arrested an employee of the Iranian consulate in Istanbul in connection with an investigation into the assassination of an Iranian dissident in Turkey in 2019, and last year the Turkish authorities arrested 11 people suspected of helping Iranian agents return an Iranian dissident by force to Tehran.