The Iranian judiciary announced today, Tuesday, the execution of former Defense Ministry employee Reza Asgari, who was convicted of spying for US intelligence.
Iran’s Mizan News Agency and Tasnim news agency quoted Judiciary spokesman Ghulam Hussein Ismaili as saying that Asgari was executed last week for his conviction of selling information about the CIA’s Iranian missile program.
Ismaili added that Asgari, who was an employee of the Department of Defense’s Aerospace Department, retired in 2016 and later contacted US intelligence and received money from him for selling information about Iranian missile production. He was arrested, and then sentenced to death.
Ismaili also spoke of another verdict issued against Mahmoud Mousavi Majd, who was convicted of espionage last June, but said that this ruling had not yet been implemented.
Majd is accused of providing information to the United States and Israel about the actions of the Iranian military commander, Major General Qassim Soleimani, who was killed by a US strike in Baghdad in January.
Iran announced in June last year that it had dismantled a network of spies working for the CIA, in a process it described as a "major blow" to Washington, and arrested a number of people who hold Iranian citizenship and were working on accessing the industrial, military, economic and cyber sectors, according to Say it.
And then - IRNA news agency quoted the head of the Iranian Intelligence Ministry's counter-intelligence unit as saying, "Based on our own intelligence and indicators collected from within American agencies, we recently found new agents recruited by the Americans, and we dismantled this new network."