Iran hung a man on Wednesday who was convicted of working as a spy for the Foreign Intelligence Agency of Israel, the Mossad, and helping in the murder of 2022 of a revolutionary colonel of the Guard in Tehran, agreed to the Islamic. An activist group says that his confession was forced.
Mohsen Langoshin, identified by the news agency as one of the “best spies of Mossad within Iran”, supposedly provided a “technical support” in the murder of Colonel Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, who was fired five times by two armed men not identified on a motorcycle, he said he had been bought by Langarnesshin, near his home in Tehran.
At the time of their murder, the Iranian media identified Khodaei only as a “defender of the sanctuary”, according to the Associated Press. The term is a euphemism used by Iran to refer to the Iranians fighting Isis in Syria and Iraq within the strength of the elite of the Revolutionary Guard.
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Irna said Langarnesshin had also provided support for an attack on an industrial center linked to the Iran Ministry of Defense, vehicles and the team bought “to create a safe environment for the elements of Mossad in Iran,” he transferred the money of Mossad officers to contacts within the country and rented security houses in several Iranian provinces. One of those houses was in Isfahan, where, in January 2023, Attacked bomb transport drones What Iran described as a military workshop. Iran has accused Israel of making a meteorologist of the attack.
Langarnesshin was recruited by the Mossad in 2020 and worked for the Israelis for two years, according to the state media of Iran, the time of the door with the Mossad officers in the nation of Georgia and Nepal “, and received their missions.”
Irna said Langerneshin confessed “the duration of all stages of interrogations, prosecution and judicial procedures,” after being “confronted with extensive case documents.”
The Human Rights news agency, a non -profit group focused on rights issues in Iran, said Wednesday that a source close to Langerneshin’s family had recently told the organization that “he had been promised that if he repeated what the interrogators wanted in the camera, he would only face prison.”
The organization cited another source whom he said he was close to Langarnesshin saying that he “was tasks for specific location and forced to narrate a pre -written script by interrogators, which was filmed.”
Masoud Langarnesshin, Mohsen’s father, released a video in the days before the execution claiming that his son had died to his legs without a fair trial. His mother, who issued a public appeal for help to human rights organizations, had last visited with his son in the prison of Ghezel Hesar in Karaj, west of Tehran, on April 29.
Iran’s revolutionary court, which condemned Langarness to death, was established after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and is known for its brutal pointers of political opponents of the clerical rulers of the country. The court generally provides a lawyer appointed by the court and does not allow any press access.
“After going through legal procedures in several stages of the case, Langarnoshin was a death sentence, and his sentence was held this morning,” Irna reported Wednesday.