DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran executed a person named Bahman Choubi-asl on Monday, the judiciary’s information outlet Mizan mentioned, saying the defendant was “one of the essential spies for Israel in Iran”.
Entangled in a decades-long shadow struggle with Israel, Iran has executed many people it accuses of getting hyperlinks with Israel’s Mossad intelligence service and facilitating its operations within the nation.
“The principle purpose of Mossad in attracting the defendant’s cooperation was to acquire the database of governmental establishments and create a breach in Iranian knowledge centres, together with which it additionally pursued different secondary objectives, together with investigating the route of importing digital gear,” Mizan mentioned.
The Supreme Courtroom had rejected the defendant’s attraction and confirmed the loss of life sentence on fees of “corruption on earth”, it mentioned.
The Iran-Israel battle escalated right into a direct struggle in June when Israel struck varied targets inside Iran, together with by operations that relied on Mossad commandos being deployed deep contained in the nation.
Executions of Iranians convicted of spying for Israel have considerably elevated this yr, with not less than 10 loss of life sentences carried out in latest months.
(Reporting by Dubai Newsroom; Modifying by Tom Hogue and Kate Mayberry)