Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB reported on Saturday that Iranian intelligence services had obtained a large volume of sensitive material from Israel, including documents it says are related to the Jewish state's nuclear and strategic facilities.
The material was transferred out of Israeli territory and is under examination, the report said citing informed sources.
The state-run media described the documents as highly sensitive but did not provide evidence to support the assertions.
In April, Israel's Shin Bet arrested Roy Mizrahi and Almog Atias, both 24, residents of Nesher in northern Israel on suspicion of conducting intelligence-gathering missions on behalf of Iran, in the town of Kfar Ahim, where Defense Minister Israel Katz resides.
"The arrest of these individuals, if related to the documents obtained by Iran, took place after the documents were shipped out of the occupied territories (Israel)," Iran's state TV said in its report on Saturday.
According to The Times of Israel, Mizrahi and Atias were recruited via an encrypted Telegram channel and carried out tasks that included transferring a suspected explosive device. Israeli officials have accused them of knowingly cooperating with Iranian handlers throughout 2025.
In response to the arrests, Defense Minister Katz thanked security services for “foiling an Iranian plot” and Israeli authorities have signaled plans to file serious indictments.
The case is part of what Israeli security officials describe as a growing trend of Iranian efforts to recruit Israeli citizens—often for small sums of money—to carry out intelligence and sabotage operations.
In 2018, Israel said it had stolen Iran's nuclear documents including 55,000 pages and 55,000 digital files from a warehouse in Tehran's Shourabad area through an intelligence operation.
Iran has since been accusing the UN nuclear watchdog of using those documents in its reports about the Islamic Republic's nuclear activities.
