Top Iranian Intelligence Ministry official has said that Americans use secure 'Internet sites' such as health and sanitation sites to carry out espionage activities against Iran.

Iran Press/Iran news: The director general for counter-espionage at the Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced that the cyberspace is one of the widest American spyware places against Iran saying: "Americans use secure 'Internet sites' such as health and sanitation sites to secure their spies inside and outside Iran."

"Entering these sites, the spies using the second and hidden layer of it, providing information to Americans," He added.

The top Intelligence Ministry official noted that the spy network was active in Iran and other countries in the field of military, nuclear, industrial, cyber, economic and infrastructure, adding: "After discovering and dismantling this information network, a significant number of spies who co-operated with the organisation fully consciously, were identified, arrested and handed over to the judicial authorities.

He added: "Following this unparalleled Iranian anti-espionage operation, the Americans, who saw their spying resources in threat, summoned their high skilled spies from every corner of the world in Asia, Europe, and Africa to move them away from their field of information acquisition.

Americans have acknowledged this breakdown of information and described it as the biggest failure of information after the September 11 incidents.

The Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani said on Monday that a large US cyber spying network working for CIA had recently been exposed and dismantled by Iran's intelligence agencies. 208/211/213

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