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Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a government meeting in Tehran
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According to authorities, four men sentenced to death have been hanged in Iran for suspected spying for Israel. The death sentences were carried out early Monday morning, the Iranian judicial authority said on its Misan Online website.
Accordingly, the convicts were arrested in July 2022 on behalf of the Israeli secret service for planning a bomb attack against a center of the Iranian Defense Ministry in Isfahan. They were sentenced to death in September 2023.
According to the justice authority, the men were recruited by the Israeli secret service Mossad and sent to African countries for "training in military centers." Representatives of the Mossad were said to have been present at the training, it said.
In August 2023, Iran announced that it had thwarted a "very complex" project initiated by the Mossad to "sabotage" its ballistic missile industry. The bitter enemies Israel and Iran have been waging a kind of shadow war for years, accusing each other of acts of sabotage and assassination attempts.
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