Iran executes 4 men convicted of alleged links with Israel's Mossad spy agency

Iran executed on Monday four men convicted of planning sabotage and alleged links with Israel's Mossad secret service, Report informs, citing ABC News.

The official IRNA news agency said the men were convicted of planning to target a factory in 2022 belonging to Iran’s defense ministry and involved in missile and defense equipment in the central city of Isfahan. The operation was allegedly engineered by Mossad, and the four were trained by the Israeli agency in an African country before entering Iran, it said.

The four were identified as Iranian nationals: Mohammad Faramarzi, Mohsen Mazloum, Vafa Azarbar, and Pejman Fatehi. The execution was carried out after the country's Supreme Court upheld their death sentences, handed down by another court in September.

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