A Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Wednesday that Israel will
soon receive new details regarding missing Israel Air Force navigator Ron Arad
as part of a deal between Iran and a Western intelligence agency.
The Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Siasa quoted Western intelligence
officials as saying that the deal includes the release of information regarding
Arad, who's been missing in action since 1986, in exchange for details on four
Iranian diplomats who vanished in Lebanon in the 1980s.
The report, which is based on Western intelligence sources,
has not been confirmed.
The newspaper said that the deal has been enabled in light
of recent improvement in ties between Iran and the West. According to the
report, Hossein Mousavi, the brother of one of the Iranian diplomats that
served in Lebanon and disappeared in 1982, was the one who transferred the
information on the fate of Arad to the Western agency.
Arad's planewas shot down over Lebanon in 1986 and since
then he was missing in action. During that time, Mousavi served as an adviser
to the foreign minister on the Middle East and the Arab world.
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