| Iran has launched a crackdown on nuclear espionage. Officials said Iranian authorities have arrested more than a dozen people accused of relaying information on Teheran's nuclear program to opposition groups. They said some of the information has been used by the International Atomic Energy Agency as the basis of its inspections over the last two years. So far, four Iranians have gone on trial in Teheran on charges of espionage. The defendants were said to have been former employees or those with access to Iran's nuclear program. "These individuals, who infiltrated nuclear facilities and managed to win the confidence of the officials, were spying for foreign countries," Ali Mobacheri, the head of Tehran's revolutionary courts, told the government newspaper Iran. "They are in prison and their trial is under way." |