Tehran’s ‘Honey Traps’ Try To Tempt Turncoats: Report

Websites that have sprung up purporting to offer work to Iranians and Iranian proxies in Syria and Lebanon as spies for Israel are believed to be the clumsy counterintelligence effort of Iran-linked operatives, according to a recent report in The Daily Beast. The American news website said at least 16 such sites all used the same graphics, verbiage, and other details, angling to entice soldiers, spies, and security experts who formerly worked for Hizbullah, the Syrian regime, or Iran itself and who might now be tempted to turn coat for personal gain by spying for Jerusalem. Amin Sabeti, a cybersecurity expert and the director of Computer Emergency Response Team in Farsi, told The Daily Beast that he believes the sites are “a honey trap by the [Iranian] regime to identify the potential people interested in working with the foreign intelligence services.”