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2025-07-28 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Iran-born Israeli charged with giving Tehran sensitive info on Israel’s war plans
[IsraelTimes] Israeli citizen with well-connected friend allegedly informed on Iranian agent who’d been helping Israel, and told his handler in May that Israel was going to attack Iran

State prosecutors filed espionage charges last week against an Israeli citizen suspected of passing sensitive information about Israeli war plans to an Iranian intelligence agent, it was announced Sunday.

According to the indictment, the Israeli spied for Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
throughout the ongoing war against Hamas
..always the voice of sweet reason...
, including during the 12-day Israel-Iran war last month. It was unclear if he had been paid for the information.

Among other things, he allegedly informed an Iranian agent that the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s 2024 missile attacks had hit the Nevatim airbase; informed him around May 2025 that Israel was planning to attack Iran, including with a commando operation against its nuclear program; and informed him that drones from Israel were making their way to Iran via Azerbaijan.

The accused also informed the Iranian agent about an Iranian sailor who was passing on information to Israel, prosecutors alleged.

The suspect’s name and most identifying details have been barred from publication, but according to the indictment he immigrated from Iran to Israel in 1999 and rekindled ties to his birthplace over a decade later on a trip to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
During that trip, the accused visited the Iranian embassy in Turkey, and asked how he could visit Iran, where he still has family. He left the meeting with "official documents," according to the indictment, though their significance was not clear from it.

Soon after that, the accused began a relationship with an Iranian woman living in Iran.

He came into contact with Iranian operatives by way of his partner, who was contacted by an agent asking her to arrange a meeting with the suspect.

The suspect met with two Iranian operatives in September 2024 on a visit to Turkey to see his partner, prosecutors said. After his return to Israel, he maintained contact with one of the agents through the Telegram messaging app.

According to the indictment, the suspect exploited his preexisting friendship with an Israeli man, who supposedly has ties to government figures.

The suspect’s friend was separately in contact with someone who presented himself as an Iranian sailor who provided intelligence that could aid Israel against Iran. The friend requested the defendant’s help in translating his correspondence with the sailor from Farsi to Hebrew.

However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly...
the suspect exposed the sailor to his Iranian handler, sharing the information he was asked to translate and advising his contact to "keep an eye on him," per the indictment.

At some point, the accused told the Iranian agent that the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s two missile barrages at Israel in 2024 had struck the Nevatim air base — a fact that was surmisable via satellite imagery but about which Israel was reluctant to make public specific information.

Around May 2025, roughly a month before Israel’s air offensive against Iran, the defendant told his Iranian contact that Israel planned to carry out an attack in Iran.

He later updated the agent that Israel was planning a commando operation targeting the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s nuclear facilities.

Additionally, "at a time that is not precisely known by the prosecution, the accused wrote the foreign agent saying drones going to Iran from Israel were making their way to Iran via Azerbaijan," the indictment stated.

It was unclear from the indictment whether the suspect had passed accurate information, or where it had come from.

Police arrested the suspect on July 1. He was charged in the Lod District Court with the offenses of maintaining contact with a foreign agent and passing intelligence to the enemy with the intent to harm state security, which is punishable by life in prison.

Over the past year, Shin Bet and the Israeli police have uncovered more than two dozen instances of Israelis being recruited by Iran to carry out various missions.

Officials have said that they believe that potentially hundreds of Israelis have been working on behalf of Iran, in an effort that Tehran has accelerated within the past couple of years.
It’s not the quantity, it’s the quality. And of course it does help, in the spy biz, if the home office is not riddled and controlled by Mossad.
Earlier this month, the Israeli government launched an advertising campaign aimed at dissuading Israelis from spying for Iran.
Prosecutors claim the defendant exploited his preexisting friendship with another Israeli man, who supposedly has ties to government figures.

The defendant’s associate was also in contact with an Iranian chemist who provided intelligence that could aid Israel against Iran. He requested the defendant’s help in translating his correspondence with the chemist from Farsi to Hebrew.

The suspect ratted out the Iranian chemist to the intelligence agent, sharing the information he was asked to translate and advising his contact to “keep an eye on him,” per the indictment.

In May 2025, a month before Israel’s air offensive against Iran, the defendant told his Iranian contact that Israel planned to carry out an attack in Iran. He later updated the agent that Israel was planning a commando operation targeting the Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities.

Police arrested the suspect on July 1. He is charged in the Lod District Court with the offenses of maintaining contact with a foreign agent and passing intelligence to the enemy with the intent to harm state security.
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