Four Israelis charged with providing intel to Iranian agent

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Four Israelis sent photographs and information to an Iranian agent who recruited them on social media, according to an indictment served against them, which was cleared for publication on Wednesday.

The women, all Jewish immigrants from Iran, are alleged to have sent photographs of various sites around Israel at the Iranian handler’s request. They were also asked to photograph the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem and film an Israeli legislator secretly in return for cash.

All four were indicted on charges of making contact with a foreign agent, which carries a maximum sentence of 15 years.

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Three of them were also indicted for providing information that may be of use to a hostile power, for which the maximum sentence is three years.

A taxi driver married to one of the women was also indicted on the latter charge for bringing his wife to one of the sites for her to photograph.

The indictment filed in the Jerusalem District Court last week followed an investigation by the Shin Bet security service and the police. The defendants, all with families and one with grandchildren, said they didn’t know that the man was an Iranian agent and that they had no intention of harming Israel’s security.

They have been held in jail – two of them since November – but the Shin Bet, the police and the state prosecutor didn’t make that known until Tuesday. The defendants were questioned at Shin Bet offices and were prevented from meeting with lawyers for their first 10 days of detention.