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Iran hangs former nuclear employee for allegedly spying for Israel, aid groups say
2026-04-23
[IsrelTimes] Judiciary says Mehdi Farid, arrested in 2023, was executed for ‘extensive cooperation’ with Mossad; NGOs say he worked for Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization

Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
hanged a man on Wednesday convicted of links to Israel’s Mosssd
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spy agency, the judiciary said, with two NGOs based outside the country saying he worked for the Iranian atomic energy organization.

The execution of Mehdi Farid was the latest in a number of hangings of high-profile convicts in an accelerating trend that has alarmed rights groups.

"Mehdi Farid... was hanged this morning for extensive cooperation with the terrorist spy service Mossad after the case was examined and the final verdict was approved," the judiciary’s Mizan Online website said, adding that he had been convicted of the capital offense of "corruption on earth."

Norway-based NGO Iran Human Rights, which monitors executions in Iran, said Farid had been working for Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization when he was arrested on May 31, 2023.

It said he was initially sentenced to 10 years in prison, but in a new trial in July 2025, was sentenced to death on charges of spying for Israel.

The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) also said Farid, 55, was an employee of the atomic energy organization and that the new trial was a result of an appeal from the prosecutor.

Mizan said Farid was a manager in the Passive Defense Organization, a civil defense body, which issued a statement denying that he had "any membership, responsibility or position" there.

Iran has carried out multiple executions since the start of the war with the United States and Israel on February 28. A fragile ceasefire has been in place since April 8.

On Sunday, Mizan reported that Iran had executed two men convicted ​of cooperating with Mossad. The ​two, identified as Mohammad ​Masoum Shahi and Hamed Validi, were accused of belonging ​to a spy ​network linked to Mossad and had ‌received ⁠training abroad, including in Iraq’s Kurdistan region.

Iran is the world’s second most prolific executioner after China, according to rights groups based outside the country, and Iranian officials have warned there will be no leniency for anyone deemed to have collaborated with Israel.

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.
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