Iran executes former Defence ministry employee suspected with spying for US – reports

Update: Iran has executed a “defence ministry contractor” convicted of spying for the US Central Intelligence Agency, according to the semi-official news agency ISNA. 

“The execution sentence was carried out for Jalal Haji Zavar, a contractor for the defence ministry’s aerospace organisation who spied for the CIA and the American government,” ISNA reported on Saturday, quoting the Iranian military.

ISNA said he was convicted by a military court and that he was executed at an unspecified time at the Rajayi Shahr prison in the city of Karaj, west of the capital, Tehran.


Earlier: Iran has reportedly executed Jalal Hajizavar, one of its former ministry of defence employees on suspicions of spying for the US.

Hajizavar was a contract employee for the aerospace organisation.

Via Sky News 

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