Iran’s Intelligence Ministry announced that it had uncovered “five teams of spies” who had been “attempting to spy on Iran’s nuclear, political, economic, military and infrastructural projects… under the auspices of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Israeli spy agency Mossad and those of some European countries”. The same day, the judiciary confirmed the arrest of five Iranian nationals, two of whom were already sentenced to prison, on suspicion of “spying for Israel, Britain and Germany”.