(Jerusalem Post) Seven Jewish Israelis of Azeri origin were arrested for espionage for Iran, Israel Police announced on Monday. They gathered intelligence on sensitive military and infrastructure sites and identified potential human targets for Iran. Police officials said the suspects were motivated purely by financial gain and were paid hundreds of thousands of shekels, with payments routed through Russian intermediaries who traveled to Israel. The group's leader received orders from a Turkish intermediary and directed the others.
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