Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Saturday it had arrested eight people suspected of trying to transmit the coordinates of sensitive sites and details about senior military figures to Israel’s Mossad, Iranian state media reported.

They are accused of having provided the information to the Mossad spy agency during Israel’s war with Iran in June, when it targeted Iranian nuclear facilities and killed top military commanders in the worst blow to the Islamic Republic since the 1980s war with Iraq.

Iran retaliated with barrages of missiles and drones. The United States entered the war on June 22 with strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.

A statement by the IRGC, a US-designated terrorist organization, alleged that the suspects had received specialized training from Mossad via online platforms. It said they were apprehended in northeastern Iran before carrying out their plans, and that materials for making launchers, bombs, explosives and booby traps had been........

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