Rigi, the leader of the terrorist Jundallah group, was arrested in last February and hanged in June.
“We not only achieved a great victory in the arrest of this terrorist, but also deceived the intelligence agencies of other countries,” Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi told reporters on Wednesday.
Elsewhere in his remarks, he said his ministry still considers Hossein Mousavian, a former nuclear negotiator, a spy.
“Based on the evidence we have, this person (Mousavian) is a spy,” he stated.
The judiciary in 2007 declared that Mousavian was not a spy and he was cleared of spying charges and illegal possessing of classified documents.
The fact that there may be some shortcomings in the judiciary system or deficiencies in the law does not mean that Mousavian was not a spy, Moslehi observed.
He went on to say that the ministry has submitted all the relevant documents to the judiciary.
Mousavian was a senior member of Iran’s nuclear negotiation group until 2005. He also worked as the chairman of the Foreign Policy Committee at the Supreme National Security Council under ex-president Mohammad Khatami.
He was arrested in 2007 on charges of spying and possessing classified documents.
Seditionist leaders received over $1 billion from foreigners
On post-election incidents in 2009 in Iran, he said the seditionist leaders received a sum of over 1 billion dollars during the unrest.
“Yes, the figure was much higher than this,” he said when asked if Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati’s remarks, that a sum of $1 billion were given to certain so-called seditionist leaders, were true.
Last year’s incidents were mainly supported by intelligence agencies of the Zionist regime, Britain and the U.S., he said, adding that the ministry’s new findings prove these financial supports.
He also said the intelligence agents had arrested an individual who was responsible for sending the news of unrest abroad and this person confessed to reception of a considerable amount of money from certain countries.
AA/PA
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MNA
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