Dubai: Iran on Sunday executed four people who were sentenced to death for collaborating with Israel’s spy agency Mossad, Iranian state media reported.
The Islamic Republic has long accused its arch-enemy Israel of conducting covert operations on its soil. Tehran has recently accused Israel and Western intelligence services of plotting a civil war in Iran, which has been rocked by the biggest anti-government protests since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Iran’s state media reported on Wednesday that the country’s Supreme Court had upheld the death sentences handed down to the four men “for kidnapping and collaborating with the intelligence services of the Zionist regime.”
Three others were sentenced to between five and 10 years in prison after being found guilty of acting against national security, aiding kidnapping and possessing illegal weapons, JEE News said.
JEE News reported that the detainees were arrested in June – before ongoing unrest swept the country – following cooperation between the Ministry of Intelligence and the Revolutionary Guards.
