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CIA official charged with leaking Israel’s plans to retaliate against Iran

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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting in Tehran on October 23.

A CIA official has been accused of leaking Israel’s plans to retaliate against Iran for a missile attack last year.

Asif W. Rahman was charged last week in Virginia and arrested Tuesday in Cambodia, The New York Times.

He was brought to Guam to face federal charges: two counts of intentional retention and transmission of national defense information.

Rahman is accused of leaking documents that included highly classified information and detailed interpretations of satellite images that provided information about a possible Israeli attack on Iran.

The documents reportedly began circulating last month on Telegram.

US officials had previously said they did not know the source of the leak and were investigating it.

Rahman had a top-secret security clearance and had access to compartmentalized sensitive information.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting in Tehran on October 23.

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