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Iran sentences 'CIA spies' to death after 'breaking ring'
Monday 22 July 2019 08:16, UK
Image:Iran says it has captured 17 suspects
Iran says it has broken up a CIA spying ring and sentenced some of the 17 suspects to death.
Reports on state television quoted the Intelligence Ministry, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
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Are Iran and US headed to war?
Sky's diplomatic editor Dominic Waghorn analyses the ongoing situation on the gulf.
This latest development follows weeks of tension between Iran and the US.
On Saturday, Iran released a video which it claimed disproved President Donald Trump's claim that a US warship destroyed an Iranian drone.
The American president said the USS Boxer took "defensive action" on Thursday after the drone ignored repeated warnings and came within 1,000 yards of the ship in the Strait of Hormuz.
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But Iranian state TV showed video it said was taken by the drone on Thursday of USS Boxer and another American warship.
Image:Iranian Revolutionary Guards patrolling around the British-flagged tanker Stena Impero off the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas
There have also been increased tensions between the UK and Iran, after a British-flagged oil tanker, the Stena Impero, was seized in the Strait of Hormuz.
https://news.sky.com/story/iran-sentences-cia-spies-to-death-after-breaking-ring-11768085
Monday 22 July 2019 08:16, UK
Image:Iran says it has captured 17 suspects
Iran says it has broken up a CIA spying ring and sentenced some of the 17 suspects to death.
Reports on state television quoted the Intelligence Ministry, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
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Are Iran and US headed to war?
Sky's diplomatic editor Dominic Waghorn analyses the ongoing situation on the gulf.
This latest development follows weeks of tension between Iran and the US.
On Saturday, Iran released a video which it claimed disproved President Donald Trump's claim that a US warship destroyed an Iranian drone.
The American president said the USS Boxer took "defensive action" on Thursday after the drone ignored repeated warnings and came within 1,000 yards of the ship in the Strait of Hormuz.
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But Iranian state TV showed video it said was taken by the drone on Thursday of USS Boxer and another American warship.
Image:Iranian Revolutionary Guards patrolling around the British-flagged tanker Stena Impero off the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas
There have also been increased tensions between the UK and Iran, after a British-flagged oil tanker, the Stena Impero, was seized in the Strait of Hormuz.
https://news.sky.com/story/iran-sentences-cia-spies-to-death-after-breaking-ring-11768085