TEHRAN, Oct 20 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran executed a man, convicted of espionage on behalf of Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad, the Mizan news agency of the Iranian judiciary reported, yesterday.
The man, whose identity was not revealed, was executed at a prison, in Iran’s central Qom province on Saturday, Mizan quoted Seyed Kazem Mousavi, the province’s chief justice, as saying.
He added, the convict had started his intelligence cooperation with Israel in Oct, 2023, and was arrested in Feb, last year.
The chief justice said, the man had confessed to having had intelligence cooperation with Israel, and was sentenced to death, following legal proceedings.
Iran’s intelligence and judicial authorities had detected the man’s activities and prevented the transmission of the country’s sensitive data to Israel, according to Mousavi.– NNN-IRNA
