An Israeli court on Monday remanded in custody an alleged Iranian spy for eight days, a day after the Zionist Premier, outraged by US-Iran “sweet talks”, headed to Washington to meet President Barack Obama.

An Israeli court on Monday remanded in custody an alleged Iranian spy for eight days, a day after the Zionist Premier, outraged by US-Iran “sweet talks”, headed to Washington to meet President Barack Obama.

Agence France Presse reported that the Iranian, Ali Mansouri, has not yet been charged.
Mansouri, 58, was silent and motionless, in his first public appearance, as he sat in handcuffs, wearing a brown prison uniform, AFP cameraman said.

On the other hand, Israeli media considered as suspicious the circumstances surrounding the announcement of Mansouri’s arrest especially that Benjamin Netanyahu headed to the US on Sunday claiming he wants to “tell the truth” to counter Iran’s “charm offensive.”

The enemy’s media said that the Israeli security services don’t usually hurry to announce the arrest of a spy, noting that such move should be for diplomatic or political interest.

"Security services do not hurry to reveal, of their own volition, recent espionage affairs," Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot’s defense commentator Alex Fishman wrote.

"An espionage network is too important an operational card to trade with publicly, unless there is a particularly important operational or diplomatic interest that requires such disclosure," he added.

"In the case of the Iranian spy Ali Mansouri, the diplomatic interest behind the affair is completely transparent: Israel is trying to embarrass the Iranians in response to the successful public relations campaign that Iranian President (Sheikh Hasan) Rouhani conducted in the US in the past week."

For his part, the Zionist entity’s Public radio's correspondent Carmella Menashe echoed those suspicions.
"Security sources tell us that details of the investigation would have emerged anyway in the coming days," she said. "They confirm that there were additional considerations of national interest.

"The national interest considerations were the prime minister's trip to the US and his speech at the UN."

Shin Bet security service claimed that Mansouri, who holds a Belgian passport, was sent to the Zionist entity by Iran's elite Republican Guards, adding that he was arrested at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion international airport as he sought to leave the country.