General Qasem Soleimani was killed in January during an American drone strike in Baghdad (File)
Tehran:
Iran said Tuesday it would execute a man whose conviction for spying for the United States and Israel by helping to target a senior Iranian leader has been confirmed by the Supreme Court.
Mahmoud Mousavi Majd was found guilty of spying on the Iranian armed forces “in particular the Quds Force and the whereabouts of the martyr General Qasem Soleimani” for large sums of money from both the Mossad of Israel and the US Central Intelligence Agency, said judicial spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili. televised press conference.
Majd’s death sentence has been confirmed by the Supreme Court and “will be executed shortly,” he added.
Soleimani, who led the Quds Force, the foreign operations branch of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, was killed in January during an American drone strike in Baghdad.
Iran imposed a similar sentence in February on Amir Rahimpour, another man convicted of spying for the United States and of conspiracy to sell information on the Iranian nuclear program.
Tehran announced in December that it had arrested eight people “linked to the CIA” and involved in nationwide street protests that erupted in the previous month following a surge in oil prices.
He also said in July 2019 that he had dismantled a CIA spy network, arresting 17 suspects between March 2018 and March 2019 and sentencing some of them to death.
US President Donald Trump at the time rejected the claim as “completely false”.
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