Iran Executes Two Men Accused of Spying for United States and Israel
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Hemera/Thinkstock(TEHRAN, Iran) – Iran executed two men they had convicted of spying for the Unites States and Israel, according to Iran State Radio.
The radio report said one of the men hanged was Mohammad Heidari, convicted of providing the Israeli intelligence service Mossad with classified information. The second man was Kourosh Ahmadi, who was alleged to have given the CIA intelligence on Iran.
Iran has long accused Israel and the United States of spying on its nuclear program.
It’s not known when the two men were arrested and tried, but they were hanged at dawn Sunday, according to BBC News.
The execution comes only a few months after the Iran Supreme Court overturned Amir Mirzai Hekmati’s death sentence. Hekmati, an Iranian-American national, is accused of spying for the CIA and was arrested in August of 2011 while visiting family in Iran.
Hekmati and the United States government deny Iran’s spying allegations, and numerous groups are working to secure his release.
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