(Updated with details)
December 29 (Reuters) – Iran on Friday executed four “saboteurs” linked to Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence service, reports the Iranian judiciary’s news agency, Mizan.
“Four members of a sabotage team associated with the Zionist regime, who had committed numerous actions against the country’s security under the leadership of Mossad officers, were executed this morning after legal procedures,” Mizan said.
According to the semi-official Tasnim news agency, these are three men and a woman who were tried in the west of the country, with six other people whose fate is unknown.
Another agency, Irna, released a video of the men’s “confessions”, in which they say they collaborated with a Mossad agent based in Turkey.
According to Iranian media, the suspects, arrested in May 2022 after four months of surveillance, were responsible for burning vehicles or houses of people linked to the security services and transmitting photos of sensitive sites to the Mossad for payment.
Iran has repeatedly accused Mossad of assassinating scientists linked to its nuclear program or of organizing sabotage of nuclear infrastructure or its military-industrial complex. Israel has never reacted to these accusations. (Edited by Clarence Fernandez; French version Camille Raynaud and Tangi Salaün, edited by Kate Entringer)
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