'Iranian Spies Deployed in the Gulf Countries'
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A network of Iranian spies and local collaborators are spread across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, waiting for a signal from the Iranian leadership to destabilize local regimes, the Emirati-based daily Gulf News reports.
The paper interviewed an exiled Iranian diplomat, who made his comments in response to reports from Kuwait, according to which a clandestine network was ready to undermine the Kuwaiti regime's stability.
"Sleeper cells are in place, ready to become operational," Iran's former ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, 'Adil Al-Asadi, told the Gulf News.
Al-Asadi defected in 2001 and found political asylum in Sweden. According to him, Iran's Revolutionary Guards have been covertly building a strategic force of collaborators since the Islamic revolution in 1979.

Concerns have recently peaked in Kuwait regarding the possibility that a large espionage network has been deploying in the country.
Some 25,000 members of the Al-Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards live in Kuwait [disguised] as workers, and are ready to follow any instructions they receive, Kuwaiti MP Nasir A-Duweila said earlier this week.
A few months ago, Bahrain - another GCC member - convicted a five-member cell of terrorist activities. The defendants were charged with a variety of offenses, including receiving explosives and weapons training, engaging in terrorism overseas and terrorism financing.
The Bahraini investigators revealed that several of the cell members traveled from Bahrain to Afghanistan via Iran.
"Bahraini authorities did not know whether the Iranian government actively facilitated the cell members' travel to Afghanistan, but given the regime's track record, Iran's possible involvement with the cell is worth exploring further," wrote Matthew Levitt and Michael Jacobson of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy earlier this year.