JERUSALEM - Israel's Shin Bet security agency said Tuesday that it has broken up an Iranian plot to recruit Israelis of Iranian origin as spies, part of what it says is a burgeoning Iranian intelligence operation against the Jewish state.
The affair highlights a quirk in the hostile relations between the countries — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeatedly calls for Israel's destruction but allows Israeli Jews with relatives in Iran to visit his country.
Israeli security officials told reporters that Shin Bet agents detained an Israeli returning from a visit to relatives among Iran's 25,000-member Jewish community. He told interrogators he was given money by Iranian intelligence operatives and asked to help them spy on Israel.
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