Iran Hangs Grad Student Accused of Spying for the CIA and Israel's Intel Agency
- On Monday, Iran executed Erfan Shakourzadeh, a 29-year-old aerospace engineer convicted of collaborating with the CIA and Mossad, according to state news outlets Mizan and Tasnim.
- According to the Iran Human Rights Society, Shakourzadeh was arrested in 2025 and forced into his confession; state forces allegedly claimed he contacted "enemy agents" in three stages involving Mossad and CIA.
- On Sunday, the Intelligence Ministry announced it dismantled two armed cells linked to Mossad, detaining three members of a four-member group that had planned attacks in West Azerbaijan and Tehran provinces.
- A second alleged cell was arrested while planning attacks in Kerman and Alborz provinces against Iranian military personnel, as Iran continues claiming Mossad-linked arrests amid its shadow war with Israel.
- The Intelligence Ministry stated that arrests spanning six provinces included one operative killed during an armed clash, underscoring the scope of Iran's counter-espionage operations.
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Iran hangs aerospace engineer over spying for CIA and Mossad
DUBAI — Iran said on Monday it had hanged a man convicted of spying for Mossad and the CIA, the latest in a wave of executions during its war against the United States and Israel. “Erfan Shakourzadeh … was hanged for collaborating with the US intelligence service and the Mossad spy service,” the judiciary’s Mizan Online website said. It did not specify when he was executed or when he was arrested, but said he worked at one of Iran’s “scientific …
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Iran has executed Erfan Shakourzadeh, a man convicted of spying for Israel’s Mossad and the U.S. CIA, according to the judiciary-linked Mizan news agency and Reuters. Iranian state-linked reporting said he worked at a scientific organization involved in satellite activities and had shared classified scientific information with foreign intelligence services.
Iranian authorities hanged a 29-year-old graduate student from an elite university in Tehran on Monday on espionage charges, in the latest in a series of executions in the context of the war against the United States and Israel. Erfan Shakourzadeh, 29 years old, was hanged after being convicted for collaborating with the CIA and Mossad , reported the Mizan Online portal, under the Iranian judiciary. Human rights organizations Iran Human Rights (…
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Iran executes a top U.S.-educated engineering student accused of spying for the CIA and Mossad, exposing the regime’s ruthless crackdown amid its war on America and Israel. Execution Details and Charges Erfan Shakourzadeh, a 29-year-old post-graduate aerospace engineering student, faced execution by hanging at dawn on May 12, 2026, at Ghezel Hesar prison outside Tehran. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps arrested him in February 2025 on espio…
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