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Iran executes alleged Mossad agent over 2023 attack on military facility: report
- Iranian ammunition plant near Isfahan was attacked with several drones last year
- Person executed was an alleged agent for Israel’s spy service, Iran state media reports
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Iran’s judiciary has executed a “terrorist” over a drone attack that targeted a defence ministry site in central Iran last year, state media reported on Sunday.
According to state television, the person “planned to explode the workshop complex of the Ministry of Defence in Isfahan under guidance of the intelligence officer of Mossad”, Israel’s spy agency.
The date of the execution and the identity of the accused person were not immediately clear.
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Iran has several known nuclear research sites in the Isfahan region, including a uranium conversion plant. The country’s sanction-hit nuclear programme has been the target of sabotage, assassinations of scientists and cyberattacks.
Tehran has accused Israel of carrying out several covert actions on its soil.
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Iran’s intelligence ministry said in February 2023 that it had arrested the “main actors” involved in the drone attack on a defence ministry site in Isfahan, home to the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility.
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