Iranian police announced the arrest on Thursday of 24 people accused of spying for Israel and of seeking to tarnish the country's image, according to a statement carried by Tasnim news agency.
“Twenty-four individuals who were spying for the Zionist enemy offline and online, and who were... trying to disturb public opinion, and to tarnish and destroy the image of the sacred system of the Islamic Republic of Iran, were arrested,” said police commander for west Tehran Kiumars Azizi.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Thursday to “remove” the nuclear and ballistic missile threat posed by Iran, on the seventh day of war between the arch foes.
“We are committed to destroying the nuclear threat, the threat of a nuclear annihilation against Israel,” Netanyahu told reporters in the southern city of Beersheba, where a hospital was hit during an Iranian missile attack.
“Our goal is twofold -– nuclear, ballistic missile. We're going to remove them. We are in the process of completing the (removal of) this threat.”
