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Aghil Keshavarz carried out over 200 espionage missions for Mossad, including photographing military sites, amid Iran's intensified crackdown on alleged collaborators after the June conflict.
- Dec 20: Iran executed Aghil Keshavarz in Urmia, accused of espionage for Israel with `close intelligence cooperation` with Mossad, Iranian judiciary and state media said.
- Arrested in Urmia, Keshavarz was accused of completing more than 200 Mossad assignments while photographing a military headquarters some 600 kilometers northwest of Tehran.
- The Supreme Court of Iran upheld the death sentence after a closed-door trial, while Iran Human Rights said the conviction relied on confessions extracted under torture.
- Amid escalating Iran-Israel tensions, executions of Iranians convicted of spying for Israel have surged this year, following a 12-day air war in June that killed nearly 1,100 people and led to 11 executions.
- A prior case in Qom illustrates a pattern of espionage executions, while Iran's missile barrage in return killed 28 in Israel this year.
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Since Israel's war against Iran in the summer, the mullahs have taken massive action against alleged Mossad spies. Several people have already been executed.
Israel has committed several deadly attacks in Iran this year, and now the country has punished a suspected spy.
Iran executes alleged 'Mossad spy' accused of 200 surveillance missions
Iran executed 27-year-old Aghil Keshavarz after convicting him of spying for Israel, saying he was caught photographing an army division headquarters; officials said a coded notebook was found in his hotel room and Israel-linked messages on his phone
Iran executed a man convicted of espionage for Israel's benefit, announced Saturday, 20 December, the press agency of the judiciary. This is the last killing of a series since the war in June that opposed the Islamic Republic to its sworn enemy, the Hebrew State.
Iranian judicial authorities have confirmed the execution on Saturday of an individual convicted of spying for Israel, as announced by the Iranian agency Mizan, considered for all intents and purposes the communication organ of the Iranian judiciary. The individual, identified as Aqil Keshavarz, was arrested in May when he was taking pictures of a military base in the Iranian city of Urmía, in the north-west of the country, and where the convict…
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