A revolutionary court in northwestern Iran has handed down death sentences to four individuals charged with espionage on behalf of Israel, according to a report by the semi-official Fars news agency on Wednesday.
Fars stated that three of the defendants, whose nationalities were not disclosed, were accused of aiding Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad, in transporting equipment involved in the 2020 assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
Fakhrizadeh was regarded by Western intelligence agencies as the key figure behind a secret Iranian program aimed at developing nuclear weapons. However, the Iranian government has consistently denied such allegations.
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