General Salami:

IRGC’s Arrest Shocked Foreign Intel Agencies

Date: 20 October 2019 - 21:35

News ID: ۷۱۸۹۴

TEHRAN (Dispatches) – Chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hussein Salami said Sunday the recent arrest of Ruhollah Zam, the head of an anti-Iranian website and Telegram channel, has taken foreign intelligence services by surprise.
General Salami thanked religious scholars, officials, commanders, and people, who have lauded the arrest, saying IRGC intelligence forces dealt "a heavy blow” to the enemies and showed their intelligence superiority over the hegemonic states.
With this "world-class and professional intelligence” move, one of the enemies’ tools to wage a psychosocial war against Iran, stir up street riots, and sow discord among Iranian officials was arrested and the arrogant powers’ intelligence services were astounded, the IRGC commander went on to say.
On Tuesday, the IRGC announced in a statement that in a "complicated” operation, it had managed to arrest the administrator of a website "directed and supported by France’s intelligence service”.
The IRGC emphasized that Zam had been running an extensive psychological warfare in recent years with direct logistical support of foreign intelligence services and counter-revolutionary agents outside the country in order to sow discord inside Iran, stoke Iranophobia, disseminate lies, foment doubt among the younger generation about religious beliefs, prepare the ground for acts of violence and terror and create chaos and unrest inside the country.
"This evil mercenary element” was arrested during a "sophisticated” intelligence operation, according to the IRGC statement.
"Despite being under the guidance of the French intelligence service and the support of the U.S. and Zionist intelligence services…, and being guarded round the clock by various means and covers, he fell into a trap laid by… the IRGC’s Intelligence Organization,” the statement read.