Iran executes particular person accused of spying for Israel, information company says

Iran executed an individual convicted of spying for Israel’s intelligence company Mossad within the metropolis of Qom, the official judiciary information company reported on Sunday (October 19, 2025).

The sentence was carried out early on Saturday (October 18) after the Supreme Court upheld the ruling and a request for a pardon was denied, the Mizan information company stated.

The report didn’t establish the particular person however stated that the person was accused of “intelligence cooperation with the Zionist regime” and located responsible of “corruption on Earth” and “enmity towards God” — crimes punishable by loss of life below Iran’s Islamic penal code.

Mizan stated that the particular person started contacts and cooperation with Israeli intelligence companies in October 2023 and was arrested 4 months later, in February 2024.

The defendant had allegedly offered delicate data to Mossad and carried out missions inside Iran on behalf of Israeli intelligence, based on the report. No additional particulars concerning the nature of the alleged espionage or the date of the particular person’s arrest have been made public.

Iran’s judiciary has repeatedly described such executions as essential to safeguard nationwide safety, significantly amid what Tehran calls Israel’s “infiltration and sabotage operations.” The execution in Qom, dwelling to a sacred Shiite shrine about 120 km south of the capital Tehran, follows a current collection of comparable instances involving alleged cooperation with Israel.

On October 4, Iran executed six folks accused of conducting bombings and armed assaults in Khuzestan Province whereas allegedly working with Mossad. Authorities stated that the group had “operated in direct reference to the Zionist regime’s intelligence equipment.” Days earlier, on September 29, Iran hanged one other defendant, recognized as Bahman Choobiasl, who was convicted of spying for Israel. Choobiasl was executed in Arak Prison, after being discovered responsible of accumulating delicate data and offering it to Israeli handlers.

Since the “12-day conflict” earlier this yr and a collection of Israeli strikes concentrating on Iranian navy websites, Iran is understood to have executed at the least 9 folks accused of espionage.

The battle — marked by Israeli airstrikes that killed about 1,100 folks, together with senior Iranian navy commanders — triggered Iranian missile barrages concentrating on Israeli territory in retaliation. The trade left either side on excessive alert and additional infected tensions throughout the area.

Human rights organisations and Western governments have condemned Iran’s growing use of capital punishment, significantly for political and espionage-related offences.

Activists argue that lots of the convictions depend on coerced confessions, and that trials typically happen behind closed doorways, with out entry to unbiased authorized illustration.

Tehran, nonetheless, maintains that these executed have been “brokers of hostile intelligence companies” concerned in acts of terrorism or sabotage. Iranian officers have accused Israel of orchestrating a marketing campaign of covert assaults inside Iran, together with assassinations of nuclear scientists and cyber-sabotage of strategic services.

Published – October 19, 2025 09:24 pm IST

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