Tehran, November 25 (KCNA) -- 12 agents of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency were arrested in Iran, a member of Iran's Majlis (parliament) National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said on Nov. 23.

Those arrested conducted activities for aiming at military and nuclear programs of Iran, he noted.

The intelligence organs of the U.S. and Zionist regime are working hard to destroy Iran through big strike, he charged.