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Iran on Saturday executed a man convicted of spying for foreign intelligence services, including Israel's Mossad, amid a wave of hanging sentences and executions.
"This morning the death sentence was carried out on a person who was tried and convicted for working for foreign services, including the Mossad, in Sistan Baluchistan," the judiciary-owned news agency Mizan reported. Mizan did not give the name of the executed man or when he was arrested or tried.
According to the Iranian judiciary, the hanged man collected information for the Israeli intelligence services with the "aim of disturbing public order", for which he was convicted in a Revolutionary Court in Zahedan, the capital of the province of Sistan Baluchistan, located in the south of the country.
The Supreme Court rejected the appeal filed by the prisoner, who later asked for a pardon, which was also rejected by the Iranian authorities.
The Islamic Republic of Iran and Israel are bitter enemies, posing an existential threat to each other, competing for regional hegemony, and waging a covert war with cyberattacks, assassinations, and sabotage.
A trial began last week against Swedish European Union official Johan Floderus on charges of spying for the Mossad, a charge that could carry the death penalty.
Iran is the world's leading country in the use of the death penalty, with 576 executions carried out in 2022, a substantial increase from 314 the previous year, according to Amnesty International.
So far in 2023, the country has executed more than 750 people, most of them for crimes related to drug trafficking and possession, according to Europe-based human rights groups.
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