{"id":94456,"date":"2026-05-02T16:38:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/94456\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T16:38:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:38:36","slug":"iran-executes-two-convicted-of-spying-for-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/94456\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran executes two\u00a0convicted of spying for Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-05-02T09:59:58+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shafaq News- Tehran<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iranian authorities on Saturday executed two men convicted<br \/>\nof espionage for Israel\u2019s intelligence service, state-affiliated media reported.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The individuals, identified as Yaqoub Karimpour and Nasser<br \/>\nBakrzadeh, were executed by hanging. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to judicial documents cited in the reports,<br \/>\nKarimpour maintained \u201cactive cooperation\u201d with Mossad during the \u201cimposed war,\u201d<br \/>\naccusing him of transmitting sensitive information about the country to an<br \/>\nIsraeli intelligence officer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Investigations into Bakrzadeh\u2019s activities indicated that he<br \/>\ncarried out movements in \u201csensitive areas,\u201d while security agencies reportedly<br \/>\nmonitored his actions and communications before arresting him on suspicion of<br \/>\nespionage. Documents related to the case stated that Bakrzadeh, acting<br \/>\non instructions from a Mossad officer, collected and transmitted information on<br \/>\nprominent government, religious, and local figures. He was also accused of<br \/>\ngathering intelligence on sensitive locations, including the Natanz nuclear<br \/>\nfacility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iran frequently announces arrests and executions of<br \/>\nindividuals accused of spying, particularly in cases linked to foreign<br \/>\nintelligence services. On April 20, authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/Middle-East\/Iran-hangs-two-men-convicted-of-spying-for-Israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hanged<\/a> two men after convicting<br \/>\nthem of working with Israel\u2019s Mossad and plotting an attack onkey military<br \/>\nsites in Tehran. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-05-02T09:59:58+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Tehran Iranian authorities on Saturday executed two men&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[152,11793,34,33307,37],"class_list":{"0":"post-94456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-breaking","9":"tag-execution","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-iran-executes-two-convicted-of-spying-for-israel","12":"tag-israel"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116505968863243203","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}