15 minutes agoHe told the U.S. where General Sulejmani was hiding, Iran puts the spy to death
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)Iran announced it has executed a person convicted of sending information to the United States and Israel in connection with a powerful commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, killed by an American aircraft attack in Iraq. “Designation of Mahmud Musawi-Mayd was carried out Monday morning on [...]
Iran announced it has executed a person convicted of sending information to the United States and Israel in connection with a powerful commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, killed by an American aircraft attack in Iraq.
Mahmud Musaavi-Mayd's sentence was carried out Monday morning on the count of spying so that the issue of his betrayal of the country will be permanently closed”, the Iranian judiciary website Mizan Online reported.
Iranian authorities in June said Musavi-Mayd showed the information on the whereabouts of Qasem Soleman (Casem Suljeman), commander of Iran's Kurdish elite force, who was killed in an American air strike near Baghdad in January.
The judiciary said last month that Musavi-Mayd's death sentence was backed by the Supreme Court and would be carried out “soon”. The Court then rejected the charge, giving another contradictory accusation. In 2017 and 2018, Mousavi-Mayd, according to the Court, had provided CIA and Mossad with information about Iran's defence ministry, the Woods of the Islamic Revolution (IRGC), Iran's forces in Syria and the location of Solejmani.
In retaliation for the murder of Solejman in the early hours of January 3rd, an Iranian ballistic missile attack on an Iraqi air base left about 110 American troops with traumatic brain consequences.
A few hours later, Iranian forces shot a Ukrainian passenger plane flying from Tehran, killing 176 people aboard. Iran said the attack occurred due to a miscommunication between soldiers and senior officers.
Iranian officials did not say whether Musavi-Mayd's case was related to Iran's announcement in the summer of 2019 that he had captured 17 spies working for the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
The report comes after Iran's judiciary announced 14 July that a former defence ministry employee, convicted of selling information to the CIA, was executed.
Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said on July 14th that Reza Asgari had been in contact with the CIA in recent years, while serving at the Ministry of Defence and selling the agency information about Iran's missile programme. / ERL
