His death on January 3 by a targeted US strike on Baghdad airport had sparked protests in Tehran and made General Qassem Soleimani a hero of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
His country is preparing to execute one of its nationals, accused of having provided information to the United States and to Israel on the movements of General Soleimani.
Mahmoud Moussavi Majd was found guilty of spying on the Iranian armed forces, "especially the Quds Force" and of providing the CIA and Mossad with information on "the whereabouts and whereabouts of General Martyr Qassem Soleimani ", said the spokesman of the Judicial Authority, Gholamhossein Esmaïli, during a televised press conference.
Accused of having received large sums of money for his collaboration with these two intelligence services, the death sentence of Mahmoud Moussavi Majd has been confirmed by the Supreme Court and "will be applied soon" according to the representative of the authority Iranian judiciary.
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