ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Doha said Wednesday it captured two cells comprising around a dozen suspects reportedly working for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Qatar, the peninsula’s state-run news agency relayed, noting that the purported operatives were assigned to carry out “espionage and subversion missions.”
Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported that “the competent authorities have successfully arrested two cells operating on behalf of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard [Corps] in the State of Qatar.”
The outlet added that the arrests followed “precision monitoring and tracking operations” and “resulted in the capture of ten suspects - seven tasked with espionage missions to gather intelligence on the nation's vital and military infrastructure,” and three others “assigned to conduct sabotage activities and trained in the use of drones.”
Qatari authorities also discovered “locations and coordinates of sensitive facilities and installations, along with communication devices and technological equipment” in the possession of the suspects, QNA said. The suspects reportedly confessed their links to the IRGC, stating that “they had been assigned to conduct espionage and subversion missions.