Iran announced the execution on Wednesday April 30 of a man presented, according to him, as guilty of having “Spy” On behalf of Israeli intelligence services, and for his involvement in the death of an Iranian officer in 2022. “A high -ranking spy and operational support of several Mossad missions in Iran, Mohsen Langarneshin, was hanged this morning”,, assured Mizan, the press agency of the judiciary. Neither the date of his arrest nor that of his trial was however specified.
Justice said the individual in question was involved in “Assassination” From Hassan Sayyad Khodaï, a colonel of the revolution guards, the ideological army of Iran. Aged 50, he had been shot by two bikers on May 22, 2022, when he returned home, in the east of the capital, Tehran. A few days later, the American daily The New York Times had written that Israel said in the United States being responsible for the murder of the officer.
Iranian justice accuses the individual hanged on Wednesday of having “Bought a motorcycle to monitor” Hassan Sayyad Khodaï.
According to Iranian television, the colonel was ” known “ In Syria, where Iran was a military support of President Bashar al-Assad, overthrown in December by a coalition of radical Sunni Islamists.
Iran has repeatedly announced the arrest of agents working for the intelligence services of foreign countries, including its sworn enemy Israel. In December 2023, Iranian justice had executed a man in the south-east of the country found guilty of having cooperated with Mossad. Four men were hanged in December 2022 after their death sentence for ” cooperation “ with Israel.