Iran executes man accused of spying for CIA and Mossad

Iran said Mahmoud Mousavi Majd, a man convicted of spying on the Iranian military for the United States and Israel, has been executed.
“Mahmoud Mousavi Majd’s sentence was carried out on Monday morning over the charge of espionage so that the case of his betrayal to his country will be closed forever,” Iran’s judiciary announced on Monday.
Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said earlier this month that Majd spied “on various security fields, especially the armed forces and the Quds Force and the whereabouts and movements of martyr General Qassem Soleimani,” according to the Times of Israel.
Iran has said Majd’s intelligence about Soleimani’s location preceded his death but was not tied to the military commander’s killing in January by a U.S. drone strike. According to Esmaili, Majd was arrested in October 2018 and had received money from both the CIA and Mossad, Israel’s main intelligence agency.
The CIA declined to comment on the execution when contacted by the Washington Examiner.
In the 1970s, Majd began a career as a translator after moving to Syria, where authorities said he was able to rub elbows with Iranian officials. Although not part of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Majd was accused of infiltrating “many sensitive areas under the cover of being a translator.”
“His knowledge of Arabic and familiarity with Syria’s geography made him close to Iranian military advisers and he took responsibilities in groups stationed from Idlib to Latakia,” Iran’s judiciary said.
An Iranian investigation found that he had been paid “American dollars to reveal information on adviser convoys, military equipment and communication systems, commanders and their movements, important geographical areas, codes and passwords,” the judiciary said.
Shahin Gobadi, spokesman for the Iranian opposition group People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, told the Washington Examiner on Monday that his group “strongly condemned” the execution.

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Iran executes man accused of spying for CIA and Mossad

Iran executes man accused of spying for CIA and Mossad

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