Iranian sentenced to death for spying for Israel named

Amnesty International announces that emergency medicine specialist Ahmadreza Djalali is the Iranian citizen who was sentenced to death this week for allegedly working with the Israeli government.

Tehran’s prosecutor general Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi did not name Djalali but confirmed that a suspect was sentenced to death for passing information on Iran’s nuclear program to agents from Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency in exchange for a Swedish residency permit.

“One of the actions of the convict was revealing the location of and some information on 30 outstanding individuals engaged in military and nuclear research projects,” Jafari Dolatabadi says in comments quoted by the judiciary’s Mizan website.

He adds that the information led to the assassination of two Iranian nuclear scientists, Majid Shahriari and Masoud Alimohammadi, killed in bomb blasts in 2010.

— with AFP