Add Iran as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Iran news, video, and analysis from ABC News. Add InterestIran's intelligence minister has boasted on state television about his country's successful recruitment of a former Cabinet-level official from a "hostile" country, signaling Tehran's first acknowledgment of compromising an arrested Israeli official. Speaking on state TV late Tuesday, Mahmoud Alavi claimed his agency had a "member of the Cabinet of a hostile country" in hand. He did not name the country or individual, but said it showed "the counter-espionage sector of the Intelligence Ministry is one the most powerful among world's intelligence services." Israel's Shin Bet security agency accuses Segev of "committing offenses of assisting the enemy in war and spying against the state of Israel."

Source: ABC News August 29, 2018 07:21 UTC