...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
has detained an Iranian and a Turk on spying charges, a bigwig said Wednesday, in the latest espionage case threatening to roil relations between the two neighbouring regional powers.
The two alleged spies were detained as they plotted to kidnap and forcibly repatriate a former Iranian military official from the eastern
Six local "collaborators" were also arrested in operations conducted jointly by Turkey's MIT national intelligence agency and the national police, the official said.
The official did not disclose the suspects' identities or the reasons for their attempted kidnap of the former Iranian military official.
Turkey and Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
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Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
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have historically close economic relations but occasionally find themselves on opposite sides of regional conflicts, including in Syria.
In February, Turkey briefly detained an employee of the Iranian consulate in Istanbul in connection with a probe into the liquidation of an Iranian dissident in Turkey in 2019.
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Anadolu Agency reported that the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT) and police conducted an operation on September 24 to chase a group of eight people who they believed were attempting to abduct a former Iranian soldier. The group consisted of six Turkish nationals and two Iranian agents.
The news agency said the network had been provided with a budget of $30,000 - one third of which was supposedly for enticing the wife of the target to help them. She was reportedly threatened by authorities in Tehran, which said her family in Iran would be harmed if she refused to cooperate.
They were caught in Van, which borders Iran, on the first day of the operation after they were allegedly sent to bring the man back to Iran in a car.
Tehran has not commented on the operation.