Iran executes man accused of spying for Mossad
Kouroush Keyvani was arrested during June war and convicted of providing Israeli spy agency with information about 'sensitive locations'
Iran executed a man accused of spying for Israel, the judiciary’s Mizan news agency said on Wednesday, in the first such execution announced since the war with Israel and the United States broke out on February 28.
“The death sentence of a spy for the Zionist regime, who had been providing images and information, about the country’s sensitive locations to Mossad officers was carried out this morning,” the Mizan Online website said.
Mizan identified the man as Kouroush Keyvani and said he was arrested during Iran’s 12-day war with Israel last June.
It listed details of his alleged meetings with agents from Israel’s Mossad spy agency and said he received training in “six European countries and in Tel Aviv.”
Locked in a decades-long shadow war with Israel, Iran has executed scores of people it has accused of links to Mossad and of facilitating its operations inside the country.
The most recent execution of a man Iran accused of spying for Israel was on January 7. Mizan named the accused as Ali Ardestani.