Israel announces arrest of Iranian "spy"

JERUSALEM--Israel's Shin Bet security service on Sunday announced the arrest of an Iranian "spy" with photographs of the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, reports AFP.
News of the arrest was just a few hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington and New York, determined to expose what he described as "sweet talk" published by Israel's arch enemy Iran.
Suspects, a Belgian passport, operating Bill the elite of Iran was Republican guards after Israel via Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport arrested, Shin Bet in a statement.
The national intelligence service identified him as Ali Mansouri, 58, and said that he had written a "special operations unit of the revolutionary guard responsible for numerous terrorist attacks around the world."
He had recruited Alex Mans false identity used by the Agency last year said, naming his four alleged handler as Iranian officials.
Shin Bet said that under questioning, the suspect said that he $1 million was promised to use his position as a business man, to set up companies in Israel on behalf of the Iranian secret services, "Israeli and Western interests to harm."
He had previously visited Israel in July 2012 and in January. An Iranian national had married a Belgian woman the suspicious in 2006, which he was now divorced.
On the diplomatic front, Netanyahu was dismissive in his response to the drive by Iran's new President Hassan Rouhani, with the international community to repair fences, which culminated in a historic 15-minute telephone conversation with U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday.

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