Iran ruled on Monday (23) a prisoner convicted of cooperation with the Israeli Intelligence Service (Mossad) and the opposing television station Iran Internationalin the third execution of this type since the beginning of the conflict with Israel, ten days ago.
“Mohammad Amin Mahdavi Shayesteh, who drove a cyber network in Iran under the direction of Mossad’s espionage service, was hanged,” the news agency said Mizanlinked to the Iranian judiciary.
The hanged led a cyber network that performed “Iran psychological and media operations” on social networks and messaging platforms against the Iranian military and other institutions under Mossad, according to the judicial authorities.
“A remarkable feature of this Zionist cyber network is its close connection with the Persian language network of the Zionist regime, ‘Iran International’,” said the Mizanemphasizing that Shayesteh was also involved with the channel.
A Iran International It is perhaps the main opposition vehicle of communication to the Islamic Republic. London -based, it is a television channel that conveys in Persian, with a website and a significant presence on social networks.
The channel was declared a terrorist group in November 2022, shortly after Mahsa Amini’s death, after being arrested for not using the veil correctly, and because of the extensive coverage that the opposing channel dedicated to the case.
This is the third execution of prisoners convicted of collaborating with Israel in recent days. In the previous two, which took place on Sunday and a week ago, Iran executed two prisoners accused of espionage to Mossad.
Since Israel launched his military offensive against Iran at dawn on June 13, the Iranian authorities have started an operation to arrest alleged Mossad collaborators in their territory, with hundreds of arrests.
The operation generated alarm between human rights groups such as Amnesty International (AI), which requested the “interruption of all plans to perform arbitrary executions and the protection of all prisoners on the charges of espionage to Israel against forced disappearances, torture and other mistreatment.”