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Jomana Karadsheh

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Is Iran Recruiting Spies to Conduct Anti-Semitic Attacks?

anti-Trump, anti-war posters and put them up in different parts of London.

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Is Iran Recruiting Spies to Conduct Anti-Semitic Attacks?

And they said that they would pay her $2 in crypto per poster.

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Is Iran Recruiting Spies to Conduct Anti-Semitic Attacks?

And we're also telling her how to avoid surveillance cameras.

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Is Iran Recruiting Spies to Conduct Anti-Semitic Attacks?

So it sounded like, is this some sort of a, I don't know, like a test, you know, checking to see if she's going to be loyal and do this, an initiation task of sorts?

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Is Iran Recruiting Spies to Conduct Anti-Semitic Attacks?

In my case, they went straight into it, asking me if I had access to any Zionist individuals or assets.

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Is Iran Recruiting Spies to Conduct Anti-Semitic Attacks?

And when I asked, what does that mean?

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Is Iran Recruiting Spies to Conduct Anti-Semitic Attacks?

They said, anyone who's in the IDF, Shin Bet, Mossad, do you have access to any individuals?

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Is Iran Recruiting Spies to Conduct Anti-Semitic Attacks?

I said, well, are you looking for people just in Israel?

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Is Iran Recruiting Spies to Conduct Anti-Semitic Attacks?

And they said, no, we're looking for anyone who can harm Israeli individuals or assets.

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Is Iran Recruiting Spies to Conduct Anti-Semitic Attacks?

And at that point, we thought we had to end that conversation there because it sounded quite dangerous at that point.

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Is Iran Recruiting Spies to Conduct Anti-Semitic Attacks?

But you just see how easy it is to start these conversations.

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Is Iran Recruiting Spies to Conduct Anti-Semitic Attacks?

Now, who's running this?

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Is Iran Recruiting Spies to Conduct Anti-Semitic Attacks?

Who's behind this?

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Is Iran Recruiting Spies to Conduct Anti-Semitic Attacks?

We don't know.

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Is Iran Recruiting Spies to Conduct Anti-Semitic Attacks?

But what we found is the fact that this same channel name, VIP Employment,

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Is Iran Recruiting Spies to Conduct Anti-Semitic Attacks?

appeared in indictments in Israel last year, and that they were also trying to recruit Israelis that same way.

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Is Iran Recruiting Spies to Conduct Anti-Semitic Attacks?

Absolutely.

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Is Iran Recruiting Spies to Conduct Anti-Semitic Attacks?

I think, I mean, you look at it, it seemed to have worked in Israel, where you have a country now that is, according to Israeli officials, facing its most serious domestic espionage crisis ever.

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ever, right?

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It's unprecedented, the number of Israelis who have been, you know, allegedly hired by the Iranian intelligence, like you say, digitally.