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Iran executes spy for selling missile information to CIA
- Reza Asgari, a former employee of the defence ministry, was executed last week
- Asgari had received large sums of money from the US spy agency ‘after retirement by selling them the information he had regarding our missiles’
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Iran has executed a man convicted of spying for the United States by selling the CIA information on the Islamic republic’s missile programme, the judiciary spokesman said on Tuesday.
Reza Asgari, an Iranian citizen, was executed last week, Gholamhossein Esmaili was quoted as saying by the judiciary’s official website Mizan Online.
He had worked at the defence ministry’s aerospace division for years but retired around four years ago, the spokesman added.
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Asgari had received large sums of money from the Central Intelligence Agency “after retirement by selling them the information he had regarding our missiles”.
“He was identified, tried, and sentenced to death,” Esmaili said.
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He added that the death sentence passed for Mahmoud Mousavi Majd, another Iranian who was found guilty of espionage last month, was also set to go ahead.
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