Israel and the United States strongly condemned on Tuesday a report from Tehran that 13 Iranian Jews, including rabbis, have been charged with spying for America and the Jewish state. Israel called for the immediate release of the detainees, and the United States criticized the arrests, saying they send a “very disturbing signal.”
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