The Iranian Justice announced this Tuesday the death sentence of three people for allegedly spying for Israel and trying to introduce material into the country for the 2020 assassination of the nuclear scientist. Mohsen Fakhrizadehaction of which Tehran accused Tel Aviv.
The three convicted spied “for the occupation regime (Israel)” with “the pretext of smuggling alcohol,” reported the spokesman for the Judiciary of Iran, Asghar Jahangirin a press conference.
Jahangir He also indicated that the three prisoners, of whom he did not provide the names or the date of their sentence, “tried to introduce material into the country to murder Fakhrizadeh” in 2020.
Iranian Jew executed
Fakhrizadeh was shot to death with a remote-controlled firearm in the area of Absardin the province of Tehranin a murder that Iran described as “state terrorism” and of which it accused Israel.
The scientist was considered by Western intelligence services to be the director of the supposed secret Iranian program to develop nuclear weapons and died in hospital from injuries suffered in the attack.
The Iranian authorities executed the young man yesterday Arvin Ghahremania 20-year-old Iranian Jew convicted of murder, after the victim’s family initially accepted “diyya” (financial compensation), but changed their mind and demanded execution upon discovering his religion.
The sentences announced today come amid a new escalation of tension between Iran and Israel, which killed five Iranians a few days ago in an attack against Iran, in response to the launch of 180 missiles against its territory last October after the deaths of Ismael Haniyehleader of the Palestinian group Hamasy Hasan Nasrallahleader of the Lebanese militia-party Hezbollah.
German-Iranian Sharmahd died before being executed
On the other hand, the Iranian justice system reported this Tuesday that the German-Iranian citizen Jamshid Sharmahd69 years old, and who had supposedly been executed on October 28, died before being executed.
The spokesman for the judiciary assured in his press conference that Jamshid Sharmahd “He was sentenced to death, his sentence was ready to be carried out, but he died before the execution of the sentence.”
Jahangir He did not offer further details about the circumstances of the death.
Iranian media including the agency Misanof the Judiciary, reported on October 28 of the execution of Sharmahda journalist by profession and sentenced to death in February 2023 for allegedly leading a terrorist group that planned 23 attacks and carried out 5 on Iranian soil.
The death of the German-Iranian opened a diplomatic crisis with Germany which decided last week to close the Iranian consulates in Frankfurt, Hamburg y Munich. EFE
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