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Iran has executed a man convicted of spying for Israel's intelligence agency, the judiciary said on Sunday, the latest in a string of executions since June's 12-day war between the two countries.
“The execution of this spy… was carried out after the Supreme Court confirmed the sentence and rejected the pardon request, in the prison of Qom,” said Kazem Mousavi, the president of the Court of Justice of Qom province, quoted by the Mizan Online website of the judicial authorities.
The identity of the man, who was hanged Saturday in the holy city of Qom, located south of Tehran, was not immediately released.
According to Iranian authorities, the suspect allegedly began contacting Israeli intelligence services in October 2023 and was arrested between January and February 2024.
Investigators said he confessed to working with the Mossad and passing classified information online.
Earlier this month, six men were executed in Khuzestan province for alleged acts of terrorism, less than a week after another man, described as one of Israel's top spies, was hanged.
Another individual, identified as Roozbeh Vadi, was also executed on charges of passing on information about a nuclear scientist killed during the conflict.
The Islamic Republic, which carries out the death penalty by hanging, is the world's second most active country in terms of executions, after China, according to human rights groups including Amnesty International.
Separately, the Revolutionary Guards announced that at least four tribal leaders were killed in an attack in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan.
The guards attributed the attack to “mercenary groups affiliated with the Israeli regime”, but without specifying exactly which organization it would be.
Iranian authorities frequently accuse the militant groups active in this unstable province of having ties to Israel and designate them as terrorist organizations, the quoted source notes.
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