Iran executes aerospace researcher accused of being CIA, Mossad spy

His execution came two years after he was arrested, the Oslo-based Hengaw Human Rights said, adding that he was “subjected to nine months of severe physical and psychological torture in solitary confinement in order to extract forced confessions.”

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‘My first crime was being a Kurd’: Iran executes two on espionage charges

"Don't pass by this execution letter lightly. Today is my turn, and tomorrow is someone else's turn," wrote the late Nasser Bakrzadeh in a letter composed in prison as he awaited his execution.

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Iran executes young man accused of attacking police during protests

The 21-year-old Sasan Azadvar was a karate champion from Isfahan province, according to the Oslo-based Hengaw Human Rights watchdog.

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Iran executes Baluchi man accused of attacks on security forces

“The execution sentence of Amer Ramesh was carried out early this morning,” Mizan said, accusing him of “armed rebellion through bomb attacks and ambushes targeting military forces.” 

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Iran executes man charged with spying for Israel

Erfan Kiani, one of the main elements of the enemy in the January riots in Isfahan, who, on a Mossad mission, had destroyed and burned public and private property, created terror in the city, and carried out gunfire, was hanged this morning," Iranian state broadcaster IRIB reported.

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Iran executes man on dissent, espionage charges

Sultan Ali Shirzadifakhr “was hanged for the crime of membership in the terrorist group of the MEK and cooperation with the Zionist regime’s spy service,” state broadcaster IRIB reported on Thursday.

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Trump says execution of eight Iranian women halted at his request despite Tehran denial

Both Iran and human rights monitors have stated that some of the eight women in question are no longer in prison.

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Iran hangs alleged ‘key’ Mossad spy

"Ali Ardestani, son of Ahmad Bamdad, was hanged this morning for espionage for the Mossad terrorist service. He was a key figure in Mossad in Iran who had passed sensitive information to the Zionists," the Iranian judiciary’s Mizan Online outlet said.

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Iran executes alleged Mossad spy

The judiciary also accused Keshavarz of being affiliated to the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK), an Iranian dissident group, and claimed that his family had been loyalists of Iran’s overthrown Pahlavi royal dynasty.

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