Hassan Kamran described the capture of the CIA operative as a software intelligence warfare and insisted that the resourceful enemy never imagined that their spy would be caught by Iran's intelligence forces, IRNA reported on Sunday.
On December 13, Iran's Intelligence Ministry announced that it has arrested a CIA intelligence agent of Iranian descent, foiling an intricate American plot to carry out further espionage activities in the Islamic Republic.
The captured American spy is reportedly a CIA analyst that had experience working for the Military Intelligence Division (MID) of the US Army at American military facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan and was tasked with carrying out a complex intelligence operation in an effort to infiltrate Iran's intelligence apparatus.
In a televised confession broadcast on various Iranian news programs Sunday night, the operative, Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, said he initially joined the US Army in 2001 while he lived in the State of Arizona and later underwent a decade-long intelligence training.
He added that he was deployed to the US-run Bagram Air Base in eastern Afghanistan and given access to classified US intelligence in preparation of flying to Tehran.
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A member of Iran's Majlis (parliament) Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy says the recent arrest of an Iranian American CIA spy reflects the intelligence might of the Islamic Republic.
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