Israeli plan to attack Iran: Former CIA officer admits to leaking classified documents

 Saturday, January 18, 2025

Islamabad (Point News Today / Pakistan Point News - 18th January, 2025 ) According to reports received from the US capital Washington, a 34-year-old former Central Intelligence Agency official named Asif Rahman was accused of leaking highly classified US documents related to the Israeli military attack on Iran.

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Accused Asif Rahman has now admitted that he was actually guilty of leaking these classified documents.

Arrested in Cambodia last year

This former CIA officer was primarily an analyst. He had been working for the CIA since 2016 and had a top-secret security clearance before his deployment to the CIA.

Accused Asif Rahman was arrested in Cambodia in November last year. He could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison for his crime.

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The defendant admitted in a federal court during his trial in the US state of Virginia that he had committed two crimes of knowingly withholding and then providing national defense information to someone else.

The defendant's crime in the context of Iranian-Israeli tensions

In retaliation for the killing of Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the pro-Iranian Shiite movement Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Iranian-backed Palestinian organization Hamas, in two separate Israeli attacks in Tehran and Beirut, Iran fired about 200 ballistic missiles at Israel on October 1 last year.

In response to this Iranian attack, Israel launched airstrikes on several military targets in Iran in late October last year.

According to evidence presented in a federal court in the US state of Virginia, the accused Asif Rehman printed two top-secret documents on October 17, 2024, “relating to actions against a foreign ally of the United States and its adversary.”

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According to court records, the accused Asif Rehman took pictures of these top-secret documents and then edited them with the help of a computer program to make them appear authentic. The accused then deleted the record of all his actions on the computer.

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The secret documents were sent to multiple people

According to evidence presented in court, the accused Asif Rehman “sent these secret documents regarding plans for an Israeli military attack on Iran to multiple people who were not authorized to receive them.” The accused then destroyed the documents at his workplace.

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According to court records, “Rahman also destroyed several electronic devices, including a personal mobile phone and an internet router, which he used to send top-secret information.” He later threw these destroyed electronic devices into various public trash cans along the way.

The photos leaked by the suspect in this incident were later circulated on the social media platform Telegram by an account called “Middle East Spectator.”

Israel had to “postpone” the retaliatory attacks

According to the American newspaper Washington Post, the documents leaked by the suspect Rahman mentioned possible Israeli retaliatory attacks on Iran, but did not identify the targets of the attacks.

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According to the Washington Post, these top-secret documents were prepared by the US National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and included details of military preparations and ammunition transport at an Israeli airfield.

According to the newspaper, Israeli officials postponed retaliatory military strikes against Iran after learning of the leak.

US response to the release of classified documents

Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olson in the case against Asif Rehman said in a statement, “Assif Rehman violated the trust the American people placed in him by illegally sharing national defense information that he was sworn to protect.”