TEHRAN, April 30 (Xinhua) -- Iran on Wednesday executed a "senior spy" of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, the Mizan news agency of the Iranian judiciary reported.
The executed, identified as Mohsen Langarneshin, was convicted of providing field and technical support for Mossad's operations in Iran, including the assassination of Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, a member of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, in Tehran in May 2022, the report said.
It added that he was executed following the completion of the legal and judicial processes.
It listed some of the convict's "criminal actions" as providing logistical, technical and operational support for an attack on an industrial center affiliated to the Iranian Defense Ministry in the central province of Isfahan, purchasing communications tools for Mossad agents, buying vehicles and equipping them with operational instruments, transferring money from Israeli officers to operational agents inside Iran, and renting safe houses in some Iranian provinces.
According to the report, Langarneshin had confessed to all the "crimes" he had been charged with. ■
