Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have said that a European accused of spying on “sensitive and military” sites has been arrested in the country’s south, AFP reports.

“A European was arrested by security forces from the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps … in Hormozgan province” in the south, the Guards’ Sepahnews website said, noting “the individual … entered Iran as a tourist”.

“He was gathering intelligence on sensitive and military sites,” it added, without elaborating on who the suspect was accused of working for.