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Iran arrests suspects of espionage for Britain

Xinhua,April 28, 2018 Adjust font size:

TEHRAN, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Members of a "spying team" linked to Britain have been arrested in Iran, Tehran Times reported on Friday.

"Recently members of a network affiliated to Britain, who sought to launch espionage activities in Iran have been detained," an informed source, speaking on condition of anonymity, was quoted as saying.

The detained had contacts with some anti-Iran groups and with some people who were involved in the 2009 unrest in Iran, the source said.

According to the report, Abbas Edalat, a British-Iranian citizen and a professor of computer sciences and mathematics at London Imperial College, is among those arrested.

Edalat had travelled to Iran to attend an academic workshop, the reports said. Enditem