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[UPDATED] Iran Guards arrest European accused of spying on 'military' sites
TEHRAN: Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Tuesday that a European accused of spying on "sensitive and military" sites was arrested in the country's south.
The arrest came as a fragile ceasefire between Iran and Israel took hold after 12 days of fighting, and followed multiple local media reports in recent days of individuals detained on accusations of spying for Israel.
"A European was arrested by security forces from the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps... in Hormozgan province" in the south, the Guards' Sepahnews website said, noting "the individual... entered Iran as a tourist".
"He was gathering intelligence on sensitive and military sites," it added, without elaborating on who the suspect was accused of working for.
Iran has vowed swift trials for people arrested on suspicion of collaborating with Israel.
Authorities have also announced the executions of several people convicted of working with Israel's spy agency, the Mossad.
On Monday, Iranian authorities arrested a European national on suspicion of spying for Israel.
On Friday, media reported that another European national was arrested on suspicion of espionage.
The Mehr news agency later that day published a video saying the Revolutionary Guards took into custody a German national in Markazi province, west of Tehran.
It said he was suspected of being "a spy who had entered Iran disguised as a tourist".
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