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Iran hangs three men and a woman for crimes allegedly linked to Mossad operations
Iranian army cadets and officers attend the funeral ceremony of Seyed Razi Mousavi, a high ranking Iranian general of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, who was killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike in Syria on Monday, in Tehran, Iran, December 28, 2023

THREE men and a woman were executed in Iran today for crimes allegedly linked to Israel’s Mossad spy agency.

Vafa Hanareh, Aram Omari, Rahman Parhazo and Nasim Namazi were convicted of kidnapping Iranian security forces personnel to extract information and setting fire to cars and flats belonging to Iranian intelligence agents.

A report from the Mizan news website said several others working with them received 10-year prison sentences, but gave no further details.

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