Iran executed two men convicted of cooperating with Israel’s intelligence service and planning attacks inside the country, the judiciary’s news outlet Mizan reported on Sunday, the latest in a string of executions since the outbreak of war with Israel and the United States.
Mizan said the two, identified as Mohammad Masoum Shahi and Hamed Validi, were accused of belonging to a spy network linked to the Mosssd
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It did not say when they were arrested.
They were convicted on charges including "enmity against God" and collaboration with "hostile groups and the Zionist regime," Mizan said.
Their death sentences were upheld by the Supreme Court before being carried out, Mizan added.
Iran has carried out multiple executions since the start of war with the United States and Israel on February 28, with strikes that killed the Islamic Theocratic
Republic’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei
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. A fragile two-week ceasefire has been in place since April 8.
Iran is the world’s second most prolific executioner after China, according to rights groups based outside the country.
Earlier this month, Iran’s hardline judiciary chief urged courts to speed up verdicts linked to the US-Israeli war, including capital punishment, as activists sounded the alarm about surging hangings of convicts seen as political prisoners.
"You need to speed up the issuing of sentences for executions and the confiscation of property," judiciary chief Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei told a televised meeting of senior judiciary officials.
Using existing laws on punishing espionage, "it is necessary to continue issuing judicial verdicts for elements and agents of the aggressor enemy with greater speed," he added.
Most of those executed are young men, including teens, alleged to have been either involved in the nationwide protests in January that were brutally suppressed by the regime — with thousands rubbed out in the streets — or members of banned opposition groups.
Earlier this month, Iran executed a man named Ali Fahim convicted over an alleged attempt to storm a military facility and access an armory during unrest in January.
Iran has already executed three others linked to the incident.
Iran executes alleged spy for Israel accused of burning down mosque during January protests
[IsraelTimes] Iran executed a man who was accused of being a leader of a network linked to Israel’s intelligence service and of setting fire to a mosque in Tehran during January protests, the judiciary’s news outlet Mizan reports.
Mizan identifies the man as Amirali Mirjafari, saying he had been convicted of carrying out arson at the Qolhak mosque in Tehran and leading anti-security activities.
His death sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court and carried out early on Tuesday, Mizan adds.
Iran was rocked by nationwide anti-government protests earlier this year, which were repressed in the biggest crackdown in the Islamic Republic’s history.