Police and Shin Bet agents have arrested three Israeli citizens in two separate cases on suspicion that they carried out tasks for Iranian agents, the two agencies said in a statement on Monday.

In one investigation, 33-year-old Mark Morgein, who lives in the Jordan Valley in the West Bank, was arrested on suspicion of moving a grenade from a hidden location to another at the request of his handler, with whom he maintained contact over the course of June.

Police said he carried out this task with the knowledge that this explosive would be used to harm Israeli citizens.

He was also enlisted to film a video of a missile interception during open war between Israel and Iran and send it to his handler.

Security forces also arrested two Tiberias residents, Yoni Segal, 18, and Nehorai Omri Mizrahi, 20, whom an Iranian agent allegedly tried to recruit into murdering an unnamed Israeli citizen in exchange for hundreds of thousands of shekels.

The agent offered to fly the pair out to another country, train them, and then give them the identity of their target. The plan never came to fruition.

The two are also suspected of filming shopping malls and hospitals across the country and sending their handler information on each mall’s........

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