{"id":3001,"date":"2025-09-29T07:36:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T07:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/29\/iran-hangs-one-of-the-most-important-spies-for-israel-in-latest-execution\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T07:36:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T07:36:04","slug":"iran-hangs-one-of-the-most-important-spies-for-israel-in-latest-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/29\/iran-hangs-one-of-the-most-important-spies-for-israel-in-latest-execution\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran hangs \u2018one of the most important\u2019 spies for Israel in latest execution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Iran\u2019s Mizan news agency reports that Bahman Choobiasl was accused of meeting officials from Israel\u2019s Mossad agency.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>Iran has hanged a man suspected of being \u201cone of the most important spies for Israel in Iran\u201d in the 10th such execution following the <a href=\"http:\/\/aljazeera.com\/video\/birds-eye-view\/2025\/7\/4\/mapping-israeli-strikes-on-irans-air-defences\">12-day war<\/a> in June with Israel and the United States, according to Iran\u2019s Mizan news agency.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Mizan, the judiciary\u2019s news outlet, reported that Bahman Choobiasl was executed over his meeting with officials from the Israeli spy agency, Mossad.<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span>list of 3 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>list 1 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/23\/khamenei-rules-out-talks-with-us-over-nuclear-programme-as-sanctions-loom\">\u2018Dead end\u2019: Khamenei rules out talks with US over Iran\u2019s nuclear programme<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 2 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/27\/iran-recalls-envoys-to-uk-france-germany-as-un-sanctions-reimposed\">Iran recalls envoys to UK, France, Germany as UN sanctions reimposed<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 3 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/28\/one-year-after-killing-of-leader-nasrallah-hezbollah-says-no-to-disarming\">One year after killing of leader Nasrallah, Hezbollah says no to disarming<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>According to Mizan, Choobiasl had worked on \u201csensitive telecommunications projects\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main goal of Mossad in attracting the defendant\u2019s cooperation was to obtain the database of governmental institutions and create a breach in Iranian data centres, along with which it also pursued other secondary goals, including investigating the route of importing electronic equipment,\u201d Mizan said.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s Supreme Court rejected the defendant\u2019s appeal and confirmed the death sentence on charges of \u201ccorruption on earth\u201d, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Choobiasl is the second person to be executed this month after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/17\/iran-executes-man-it-says-spied-for-israel-activists-say-false-confession\">Babak Shahbazi<\/a> was hanged, also held guilty of spying for Israel.<\/p>\n<p>However, activists disputed the claim and said Shahbazi was tortured into a false confession after writing a letter to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to offer to fight in Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>Entangled in a decades-long shadow war with Israel, and a full-blown conflict this June, Iran has put to death many individuals it accuses of having links with Mossad and facilitating its operations in the country. Iran is known to have executed 10 people for espionage since the June conflict.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/birds-eye-view\/2025\/7\/4\/mapping-israeli-strikes-on-irans-air-defences\">Israel\u2019s offensive in June<\/a> involved 12 days of air attacks, including several that targeted Iran\u2019s top generals and nuclear scientists, as well as civilians in residential areas, for which Iran retaliated with barrages of missiles and drones. The US also carried out extensive strikes, on Israel\u2019s behalf, on Iranian nuclear sites during the conflict. According to Amnesty International, Israeli attacks on Iran killed at least 1,100 people.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the June war and protests in recent years over the state of the economy, women\u2019s rights and some calls for regime change, Iran has sentenced more people to death.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights and the Washington, DC-based Abdorrahman Boroumand Centre for Human Rights in Iran, the number of people executed in 2025 was more than 1,000, but notes that the number could be higher as Tehran does not report each execution.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/28\/iranians-fear-more-economic-pain-war-as-un-sanctions-snapback\">Iranians fear<\/a> more economic pain and a possible reignition of war with Israel.\u00a0After about a decade, Iran is once more subject to United Nations sanctions as the West piles pressure on Tehran, despite opposition from Russia and China.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions were automatically reinstated on Sunday after the European signatories of Iran\u2019s 2015 nuclear deal invoked the \u201csnapback\u201d mechanism of the landmark accord to reactivate them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s Mizan news agency reports that Bahman Choobiasl was accused of meeting officials from Israel\u2019s Mossad agency. Iran has hanged a man suspected of being \u201cone of the most important spies for Israel in Iran\u201d in the 10th such execution following the 12-day war in June with Israel and the United States, according to Iran\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"Iran hangs \u2018one of the most important\u2019 spies for Israel in latest execution\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/29\/iran-hangs-one-of-the-most-important-spies-for-israel-in-latest-execution\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Iran hangs \u2018one of the most important\u2019 spies for Israel in latest execution\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}