Iran executes man it says spied for US and Israel
Mahmoud Mousavi Majd was found guilty of reporting the whereabouts of Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian military commander killed in a US drone strike.
Iran has executed a man convicted of spying for the United States and Israel, state media reported on Monday.
Mahmoud Mousavi Majd, a former translator, was accused of reporting the locations of Iranian troops in Syria and those of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander, Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani. The powerful commander was killed last January in a US drone strike in Baghdad.
Iran’s judiciary said Majd, who was arrested in 2018 and convicted last month, did not play a direct role in Soleimani’s assassination. Spokesman for the judiciary, Gholamhossein Esmaili, claimed Majd received money from both the CIA and Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency.
Esmaili warned at a news conference in June that Majd would “face the consequences” of his conviction, adding, “His masters will also witness the determination, might and intelligence reach of the Islamic Republic.”
