Iran on Friday hanged 4 individuals and sentenced a number of others to lengthy jail phrases after they have been accused of kidnapping authorities officers and sabotaging for Mossad, the Israeli intelligence company.
The official Mizan information company recognized the 4 accused spies as Wafa Henare, Aram Omari, Rahman Parhazo and Nasim Namazi.
Iranian prosecutors mentioned the 4 had “direct contact with Mossad officers” by video communications and staged their operations in Tehran and Iran’s West Azerbaijan and Hormozgan provinces.
“The members of this group set fire to the cars and houses of some people related to the security institutions of the Islamic Republic of Iran and received money by taking pictures and sending them to Mossad officers,” Mizan reported.
Fars, one other Iranian information company, mentioned the 4 have been hanged Friday in West Azerbaijan on costs of “corruption on Earth” and “waging war against God” over their work to “undermine Iran’s security.” They had been in custody since October 2022.
“The four were part of a 10-member sabotage group linked to Mossad, whose main objective was to identify Iranian intelligence agents … foiling Israeli plots against Iran,” Fars reported. “They were all tracked down and arrested after complex intelligence operations and close surveillance.”
Government prosecutors mentioned Mossad officers ordered its staff to find members of Iran’s safety companies and acquire info “through abduction, death threats and brutal battery.”
“The convicts had received money from Israeli agents and Mossad officers on several occasions for the tasks they had completed,” Iranian Justice Department official Nasser Atabati instructed Fars.
The executions got here per week after an Israeli airstrike in Syria killed Razi Mousavi, a senior officer in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He is believed to be the third IRGC officer killed in Syria since Hamas launched its Oct. 7 assault on Israel from the Gaza Strip.
