Iran claimed Tuesday that the Zionist entity arrest of an alleged Iranian spy was a "repetitive scenario" aimed at ending what it called the Jewish state’s "isolation" within the international community.

Iran claimed Tuesday that the Zionist entity arrest of an alleged Iranian spy was a "repetitive scenario" aimed at ending what it called the Jewish state's "isolation" within the international community.

Just hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left for Washington on Sunday, the Zionist Shin Bet security service announced the arrest on September 11 of a man it said was an Iranian spy carrying photographs of the US embassy in
Tel Aviv.

"This is a repetitive scenario by the Zionist regime. Even Western media said the timing of the arrest and Netanyahu's leaving (for the US) was a plan to end its isolation," foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said in her weekly press briefing.

She was referring to President Sheikh Hasan Rouhani's recent diplomatic push in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

"Such desperate scenarios stem from anger, and we cannot assess them," Afkham said, adding that the entity of occupation was also isolated for its aggressive policies regarding Iran's nuclear program.

The Jewish entity has occasionally threatened to attack Iran's nuclear installations to impede the program.

Shin Bet charged that the suspect, identified as 58-year-old Ali Mansouri with a Belgian passport, was sent to the entity by Iran's Revolutionary Guards and arrested at Ben Gurion international airport.

It claimed Mansouri had enrolled in a "special operations unit of the Revolutionary Guards responsible for numerous terrorist attacks around the world".

Shin Bet also claimed that, under questioning, the suspect said he had been promised $1 million to use his position as a businessman to set up companies in the Occupied Palestine on behalf of the Iranian intelligence services to "harm Israeli and Western interests".