State news: Iran executed 4 people it says spied for Israel

Iran's state-run IRNA news agency says authorities have executed four people accused of working for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency

ByThe Associated Press
December 4, 2022, 1:32 AM

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iranian authorities executed four people Sunday accused of working for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, the state-run IRNA news agency said.

IRNA said the country’s powerful Revolutionary Guard announced the arrests of a network of people linked to the Israeli agency. It said members stole and destroyed private and public property and kidnapped individuals and interrogated them.

The report said the alleged spies had weapons and received wages from Mossad in the form of cryptocurrency.

Israel and Iran are regional arch-enemies.

IRNA identified the executed prisoners as Hossein Ordoukhanzadeh, Shahin Imani Mahmoudabadi, Milad Ashrafi and Manouchehr Shahbandi.

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