Israel: Soldiers Passed ‘Iron Dome’ Secrets to Iran
OCCUPIED AL-QUDS (Dispatches) – The occupying regime of Israel said Monday that it had arrested two Zionists suspected of spying for Iran, including one accused of handing the country classified information obtained during his military service.
It marks the latest in a series of detentions in the Israeli occupied territories of people charged with espionage on Iran’s behalf since the summer.
Israel’s internal security service, Shin Bet, and the police reported the arrests of Yuri Eliaspov and Georgi Andreev, both from the north of the occupied territories.
Zionist media reported that both were reservists in the Israeli military, with Eliaspov suspected of bringing Andreev under Tehran’s wing.
Eliaspov is accused of having “passed on to his processing officer secret information obtained during his military service in the air defense forces”, a joint Shin Bet and police statement said.
Both were paid for their work and were fully aware they were working against Israel, the joint statement added.
The Zionist entity security rests in large part on its much-hyped air defense system, dubbed the “Iron Dome”, aimed at protecting it from rockets and projectiles fired by resistance forces.
They include the Palestinian group Hamas, whose October 7, 2023 operation inside the occupied territories dealt a serious military and intelligence blow to Israel, and neighboring Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement.
In April and October Iran launched two unprecedented direct air assaults on Israel, firing several hundred missiles and drones at the country.
Iran said the April attack was retaliation for an Israeli airstrike on Tehran’s embassy in Damascus that martyred 16 people.
It also said the October firings were revenge for the assassinations of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, assassinated in late July in Tehran, and of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut in September.
The Zionist regime accepted responsibility for assassinating Haniyeh months after the event.
In late October, Zionist police and the Shin Bet security service announced that seven settlers were detained on charges of spying for Iran by collecting sensitive information on military bases.
According to prosecutors, the seven individuals carried out around 600 espionage missions for the Islamic Republic. They were all residents of Haifa and the north and included a soldier who had deserted the Israeli army. Prosecutors also said some of them had been spying for Iran for around two years.
The military sites involved in the espionage allegedly carried out by the seven suspects included Ramat David airbase, Nevatim airbase, the Glilot base, and the Golani Brigade base near Acre – which have been targeted by Iran and Hezbollah.