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Iranian security forces have arrested six women accused of working with Israeli intelligence near the border strip of Qasr-e Shirin city, located in the western province of Kermanshah.
According to Mehr News Agency, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Sarpol-e Zahab, Colonel Mojtaba Kakaei, told IRNA on Wednesday evening that the detainees, all women, had been planning to flee the country into neighbouring Iraq.
He added that the arrests were made in coordination with the security department and the IRGC intelligence unit in Qasr-e Shirin.
Colonel Kakaei confirmed that further details about the women, described as agents of the Israeli occupation intelligence service, would be announced in due course.
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