Saudi Arabia has arrested 18 people, including Iran, Lebanese citizens and 16 the saudis, for spying, it said on Tuesday, which may improve the Riyadh tensions between Iran and rivals.
Interior ministry spokesman mansour AL - turkic state television said that the criminal suspect "involved in the foreign spy network."
Mr. Tourre told Reuters after the base, he can't say who is 18 suspected of spying, waiting for further investigation.
Sunni Saudi Arabia and shia Iran scuffle influence throughout the Middle East, including in Lebanon, Riyadh always accuse Iran of fomenting unrest in neighboring bahrain, a charge it denies.
Spies arrested in recent memory, follow a series of accusations of Riyadh, an unnamed foreign country, is widely understood as Iran, instigated the protests in Saudi Arabia.
Arrested four days ago, the criminal suspect before being handed over to judicial authorities are investigating Tours, said on television.
"They gathered at the state and the relevant facilities and key in the field of information intelligence agencies of the state," he added.
Saudi Arabia blamed continuing unrest among members of the shia minority getty in the eastern province, 16 people were killed in clashes with police for more than two years, outside intervention.
In November 2011, it said, foreign forces behind attacks on demonstrators in the build up to a police station. In January of last year, said hope of unrest in the region, 23 people on behalf of another country.
In both cases, the country is widely understood as to Iran, Saudi Arabia, although never explicitly acknowledged.
In December, the company said, a successful attempt in August last year invasion of Saudi Arabian oil company (Saudi aramco) of computer network, the origin server from other countries.
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Saudi Arab and non-arab Iran relations soured after the 1979 revolution, brought a Shiite clerics. Follow strict wahhabi Saudi Arabia schools of sunni muslims, the shia is regarded as a heresy.
In the eastern province of shia muslims say they face continuing discrimination, affected their ability to work, study and the freedom of worship, Riyadh denied this.
Saudi Arabia's interior ministry draw getty's trouble, where there is frequent anti-government protests since the beginning of 2011, as a few militants. Shia activist, characterization.
Getty's unrest broke out, Saudi troops in bahrain's ruling family to cancel by the majority Shiite leaders of mass protests. Bahrain accused hezbollah, the Lebanese shia movement under the support of Iran, behind the bombings.




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