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Iran Executes Man Convicted of Spying for Israel
By WILLIAM YONG
Published: December 28, 2010
TEHRAN — Iran on Tuesday executed a man convicted of spying for Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, according to official reports.
Iran’s judiciary reported that the man, Ali-Akbar Siadat, had been hanged at Tehran’s Evin Prison after being found guilty of passing on to “Iran’s enemies” information about the country’s military forces, including facts concerning the missile program operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
According to the charges against him, Mr. Siadat had met with Israeli agents on repeated occasions over the course of six years in destinations like Turkey, Thailand and the Netherlands, receiving payments of $3,000 to $7,000 for each meeting. He was arrested in 2008, according to the official IRNA news agency.
The official list of charges on which Mr. Siadat had been convicted included “spreading corruption on earth,” “supporting the Zionist regime” and “opposing the Islamic Republic.”
Earlier this year, Mr. Siadat was among the 192 detainees that opposition Web sites named as political prisoners being held by Iran’s authorities.
A second man, Ali Saremi, was also hanged Tuesday morning, according to the judiciary statement. Mr. Saremi was executed after repeated convictions for supporting Mujahedeen Khalq, an exiled opposition group that the government has accused of masterminding terrorist attacks within Iran’s borders from bases in Europe and Iraq.
Iran periodically reports the arrest of Iranians accused of working for Israel’s intelligence services. In November 2008, the authorities hanged Ali Ashtari, a communications and security equipment salesman, after convicting him of passing information to Israeli agents.
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