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Dutch fear US strike on Iran
The Dutch intelligence service has pulled an agent out of Iran because spymasters believe a US air attack is imminent.
- Agencies
- Published: 23:54 September 1, 2008
Brussels: The Dutch intelligence service has pulled an agent out of Iran because spymasters believe a US air attack is imminent.
Reports in De Telegraaf say The Netherlands intelligence service, the AIVD, has aborted an espionage mission aimed at infiltration and sabotage of the weapons industry in Iran.
"The operation, described as extremely successful, was halted recently in connection with plans for an impending US air attack on Iran," the newspaper reported.
"Targets would also be bombed which were connected with the Dutch espionage action," the newspaper said.
The newspaper added that "well placed" sources claimed that a top agent had been recalled recently "because the US was thought to be making a decision within weeks to attack Iran with unmanned aircraft".
The CIA link
"Information from the AIVD operation has in recent years been shared with the American CIA secret service," the newspaper said in its reports.
Brig General Seyyed Masaoud Jazayeri, the deputy chief of Iran's armed forces, said last week that military attacks against Iran would trigger a Third World War.
"The exorbitant demands of the US leaders and the global Zionism which have created the current situation in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan and Caucasus are gradually directing the world to the edge of the cliff," he had commented.
The US has refused to rule out a military attack against Iran if its government continues to enrich uranium as part of its civilian nuclear programme.
The West suspects that the programme is aimed at developing atomic weapons.
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