Publish Date: 21 August 2018 - 11:12

TEHRAN, Aug. 21 (MNA) – United States Department of Justice announced the arrest of two Iranian men on Monday for allegedly spying charges for Tehran in the United States.

US claimed Ahmadreza Mohammadi-Doostdar, 38, a dual US-Iranian citizen, and Majid Ghorbani, 59, an Iranian citizen and resident of California, have been involved in a surveillance program on be half of Iran.

The two are claimed to take photos of ultraorthodox Jewish facility in Chicago and the gathering rally of MEK anti-Iranian terrorist group in New York.

US recent charges are part of a full-fledged economic-psychological war against Iran. In the same vein, the US State Department has created a special working group called "Iran Action Group", aimed to overthrow the Islamic Republic, according to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.

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