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Iran’s claims that it broke up U.S. spy ring are ‘totally false,’ Trump says
MSN News ^ | 7/22/2019 | Erin Cunningham

Posted on 07/22/2019 12:59:06 PM PDT by detective

President Trump on Monday denied Iran’s claim that it dismantled an elaborate U.S. spy ring tasked with monitoring key military sites, dismissing the reports as a “totally false story” amid rising tensions between Tehran and the West.

Iran said that its intelligence forces identified and arrested 17 Iranians suspected of spying for the CIA and that some of them have been sentenced to death. The announcement adds to concerns about Tehran’s nuclear program and its efforts to impede shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: brexit; brexitparty; djibouti; eritrea; hassannasrallah; hezbollah; iran; lebanon; nigelfarage; spies; stenaimpero; sudan; trump; unitedkingdom; yemen
Also Monday, the State Department said it will sanction China’s chief trader in Iranian oil, state-owned Zhuhai Zhenrong, and its top executive, Youmin Li, citing violations of U.S. restrictions on Iranian oil sales.

China has continued to import Iranian oil, despite the U.S. pressure campaign to deprive Iran of its main source of foreign income. Most other countries have stopped, acquiescing to U.S. demands to cut their Iranian oil imports to zero.

1 posted on 07/22/2019 12:59:06 PM PDT by detective
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To: detective

Putting messages in Rocks , Ah for who ? LOL


2 posted on 07/22/2019 1:02:17 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: detective

The mullahs are getting desperate. The sanctions are causing ruinous inflation, food shortages and social unrest. They don’t have the hard currency to pay their soldiers and their goon squads. This stunt is directed at the educated population. Be careful what you say or write. Otherwise you might be identified as a CIA agent. These seventeen “CIA agents” no doubt will be tried ad receive a quick public hanging.


3 posted on 07/22/2019 1:10:13 PM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: detective

I think we have other way to surveil them much more conveniently. Probably using their own CCTV if we wanted to.


4 posted on 07/22/2019 1:17:51 PM PDT by Track9
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To: detective

He should have added “They sentenced them to death, I don’t care - let them kill themselves its not our people”


5 posted on 07/22/2019 1:21:52 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: butlerweave

For Mormon geologists?


6 posted on 07/22/2019 1:26:55 PM PDT by rfp1234 (NBC: Putting the TURD in Saturday.)
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To: allendale

They likely just picked out 17 homosexuals
So they can Hang Em High


7 posted on 07/22/2019 1:28:18 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Pussie Smollett, Mizzou, campus fake nooses, fake "protests" FAKE EVERYTHING Hey CNN? lol)
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............... The sanctions are toppling the economy of Iran and they are getting very desperate ..... Especially since they are the ones that fund most of the Islamic Terrorism around the world. They hate the thought of having to use the little money they have left, that would normally be spent on Terror, being forced to use it to feed and take care of the citizenry.

...... The stronger the sanctions are the less money is left to spend on Terrorism. If anything we should be increasing sanctions.

8 posted on 07/22/2019 1:33:45 PM PDT by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: detective

Trump should assure them that all our spies are still in place. The people they trust the most are his best spies, including close family members.


9 posted on 07/22/2019 1:52:30 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: detective

Imagine how easy it must be for the Iranians to round up 15 people in that country, kill them, and just claim they were US ‘spies’.


10 posted on 07/22/2019 3:04:38 PM PDT by KobraKai
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*** Especially since they are the ones that fund most of the Islamic Terrorism around the world ***

I think that would be KSA and Qatar.


11 posted on 07/22/2019 4:25:43 PM PDT by sockmonkey (I am an America First, not Israel First FReeper.)
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To: tired&retired

Excellent idea..causing heads to explode! Saying we have many, many agents operating there. Love the thought of that strategic strategy. LOL!


12 posted on 07/22/2019 5:44:35 PM PDT by V V Camp Enari 67-68 (Viet Vet)
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To: KobraKai
"Imagine how easy it must be for the Iranians to round up 15 people in that country, kill them, and just claim they were US ‘spies’."

Shouldn't they include at least one American for show, or does that complicate the diplomatic situation too much? Or maybe someone who has lived in the USA for a while?

13 posted on 07/23/2019 6:42:33 AM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy is not what it used to be.)
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