US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo denied Iran’s statement about the arrest of 17 spies working for the US Central Intelligence Agency, Reuters reported. 

“The Iranian regime has a long history of lying...I would take with a significant grain of salt any Iranian assertion about actions that they’ve taken,” Pompeo said in an interview with Fox News Channel.

As reported earlier, a court in Iran sentenced 17 people accused of spying for the US, and some of them are sentenced to death.