Iran executes young aerospace engineer over CIA and Mossad espionage allegations
Rights groups said he was held in solitary confinement and forced to confess, while Iran reported at least 190 executions so far in 2026.
- On Monday, Iran executed Erfan Shakourzadeh, a 29-year-old aerospace engineer convicted of collaborating with the CIA and Mossad, according to state news outlets Mizan and Tasnim.
- According to the Iran Human Rights Society, Shakourzadeh was arrested in 2025 and forced into his confession; state forces allegedly claimed he contacted "enemy agents" in three stages involving Mossad and CIA.
- On Sunday, the Intelligence Ministry announced it dismantled two armed cells linked to Mossad, detaining three members of a four-member group that had planned attacks in West Azerbaijan and Tehran provinces.
- A second alleged cell was arrested while planning attacks in Kerman and Alborz provinces against Iranian military personnel, as Iran continues claiming Mossad-linked arrests amid its shadow war with Israel.
- The Intelligence Ministry stated that arrests spanning six provinces included one operative killed during an armed clash, underscoring the scope of Iran's counter-espionage operations.
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Iran executed Erfan Shakourzadeh, a 29-year-old aerospace engineer who graduated first in his class and chose to stay in his country when hundreds of thousands of educated young Iranians were leaving, at dawn on Monday, at Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, without notifying his family or granting him a final visit. Shakourzadeh was hanged on charges of spying for the CIA and Israel's Mossad intelligence service, according to Iran's judiciary-linked …
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