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Tehran executes 29-year-old grad student accused of being CIA and Mossad spy

New York Post·Emily Crane·22 days ago
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Iran executed a promising aerospace engineering student Monday, accusing him of spying for both the CIA and Israel’s Mossad intelligence service. Erfan Shakourzadeh, 29, was hanged at dawn after being convicted of stealing classified satellite information from the scientific organization where he worked, Iranian state media reported. Erfan Shakourzadeh, 29, was executed Monday after the Islamic Republic accused him of spying for both the CIA and Israel’s Mossad intelligence service. LinkedIn / Erfan Shakourzadeh The regime had accused Shakourzadeh — a post-grad student at the University of Science and Technology in Tehran — of funneling details on satellite activities to the foreign intelligence services. Shakourzadeh was arrested in February last year and forced into making a confession, according to the Iran Human Rights Society. Just prior to his execution, the student apparently wrote a message saying the charges were fabricated, the human rights group said.…

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