Tehran has arrested a US Central Intelligence Agency Spy who has been wanted for a while now, based on a statement published on ISNA by the Iranian Intelligence ministry.

Tehran has arrested a US Central Intelligence Agency Spy who has been wanted for a while now, based on a statement published on ISNA by the Iranian Intelligence ministry.

"The US administration in a bid to continue hostile and all-out intelligence and operational actions against the Islamic Republic of Iran and the nation, has spent a great deal of expense and designed complicated plots to penetrate into Islamic Republic of Iran's intelligence system," the statement read.

"In line with the action, the CIA has commissioned one of its intelligence analyst who has already worked in the US Army intelligence units and in the US military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, to practice a complicated operational-intelligence scenario," it added.

The Intelligence Ministry further clarified that "the Iranian national CIA spy started to work after passing complex intelligence trainings in several phases, but the spy was identified by Iranian Intelligence Forces as entered into Bagram Base in Afghanistan. There the agent was informed of the missions. The spy had been wanted for a while after entered into Iran and was ultimately captured by the Iranian forces."