Iranian authorities executed a man on Tuesday, May 26,
after he was convicted of espionage and cooperating with Israel's Mossad
intelligence agency, according to the country's judiciary.
The judiciary’s Mizan Online website identified the
executed man as Gholamreza Khani Shakarab. His death sentence by hanging was
carried out early Tuesday morning after being upheld by the Supreme Court on
charges of intelligence cooperation with the "Zionist regime."
Mizan described Shakarab as a foreign-based
operational ringleader for Mossad who was attempting to recruit individuals
within Iran for subversive, anti-security actions. According to the report, he
was lured back into Iran and apprehended by Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
(IRGC) intelligence forces through a complex intelligence deception operation.
Iranian authorities further alleged that Mossad had
tasked Shakarab with traveling to a regional country to assassinate a Jewish
rabbi. The judiciary claimed this plot was designed to frame Iran for
anti-Jewish violence. The exact timeline of Shakarab's arrest and trial was not
disclosed.
Tuesday's execution is part of a recent surge in
security-related capital punishments in the Islamic Republic, following the
outbreak of conflict involving Israel and the United States on February 28.
The hanging follows two other recent executions. On
Monday, May 25, a man was executed after being convicted of carrying out armed
attacks during the nationwide anti-government protests that peaked in January.
A day earlier, Iran executed
Mojtaba Kian for espionage, marking the first reported
execution linked to spying offenses during the ongoing war.
According to human rights organizations, including
Amnesty International, Iran currently conducts the second-highest number of
executions globally, surpassed only by China.
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