(Washington) A former CIA analyst, the main American intelligence agency, arrested in the publication in October publication of confidential classified documents concerning Israeli strike plans against Iran, was sentenced to 37 months in prison on Thursday.
Asif Rahman, 34, was sentenced by a Federal Court of Virginia (EST) for illegal retention and transmission of classified information relating to national security. He pleaded guilty in January.
In office for the CIA abroad, he was arrested on November 12 in Cambodia by the FBI, the American federal police, had reported the American media at the time.
Asif Rahman, who worked for the CIA since 2016, was dismissed after his arrest, the Ministry of Justice said.
Despite the broadcast on Telegram of these documents, including satellite image analyzes carried out by American federal agencies, Israel-of which the United States is the main ally-retaliated at the end of October to Iran from some 200 missiles to its territory at the beginning of the same month.
The Islamic Republic said that it was reprisals for the Israeli strikes who killed the chief of Hezbollah Shiite, Hassan Nasrallah, and an Iranian general, Abbas Nilforoushan, and the assassination in Tehran of the leader of the Palestinist Islamist Islamist Islamist Hamas, Ismaïl Haniyeh, imputed to Lebanon in Lebanon.
