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Iran says it has executed a CIA and Mossad agent, who had been convicted of espionage for US and Israeli spying agencies, including the exposing of top anti-terror Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani’s whereabouts to them.
According to Press TV quoting Mizan Online, the Judiciary’s news agency, Mahmoud Mousavi Majd was executed early Monday.
Judiciary Spokesman Gholam-Hossein Esmaeili had announced the death sentence during a press conference on June 9.
The convict had contacted the spy agencies, providing them with information he had gathered in various security-related areas, especially data concerning the Iranian Armed Forces, including the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Esmaeili said at the time. According to the spokesman, Majd handed over the information to the US and Israeli spy agencies in exchange for remuneration in dollar.
Mizan Online said on one count, Majd had been convicted of spying on General Soleimani, the Quds Force’s former Commander, plus other military commanders’ movements and locations, and reporting them to the CIA and Mossad.
The death sentence was upheld by Branch 19 of the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Court.
Lt. General Soleimani was assassinated in a US airstrike at Baghdad airport on January 3, along with Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the Second-in-Command of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), and a number of their companions.
Both commanders were extremely popular because of playing a key role in eliminating the US-sponsored Daesh terrorist group in the region, particularly in Iraq and Syria.
Earlier in July, Agnes Callamard, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, in a report to the UN Human Rights Council underlined the “unlawful” nature of the operation because the US had failed to provide evidence of an ongoing or imminent attack against its interests to justify the strike.
Also speaking to Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen television network on July 12, she called the assassination “violation of every single principle not only governing international law, but governing international relations.”
