Israel is prosecuting four women and a man for allegedly having had contact with an Iranian agent. He approached them via Facebook and then asked them to continue talking via WhatsApp, Shin Bet reports. The security service thinks that some suspects already suspected that the man was an Iranian agent. Yet they kept in touch with him. They would also have taken money.
The agent, who called himself ‘Rambod Namdar’, is said to have been in contact with one woman for years. She took photos of the American embassy for him, among other things. According to Shin Bet, this woman urged her son to do his military service with an intelligence service. This could give him access to sensitive information.
The lawyer for one of the suspects says that his client believed that Namdar was a Jewish man in the Iranian capital Tehran. The man would like to come to Israel and see pictures of the country.
All the suspects are Jewish immigrants from Iran or descendants of Iranian immigrants, according to Israeli media.