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NDTV
01-05-2025
- Politics
- NDTV
Iran Executes "High-Ranking Spy" Of Israel's Mossad
Tehran: Iran has executed a "high-ranking spy" of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, the media reported. The executed, identified as Mohsen Langarneshin, was convicted of providing field and technical support for Mossad's operations in Iran, including the assassination of Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, a member of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, in Tehran in May 2022, the Mizan news agency of the Iranian judiciary report said on Wednesday. Langarneshin, who was hanged on Wednesday morning, provided Mossad with extensive "logistical, technical and operational support" for two years, starting in 2020, the judiciary said via its official news agency, Mizan. It added that he was executed following the completion of the legal and judicial processes, Xinhua news agency reported. One of the key accusations against Langarneshin was his involvement in the May 2022 killing of an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) colonel, Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, who was shot dead by two motorcyclists on his way home in Tehran. It listed some of the convict's "criminal actions" as providing logistical, technical and operational support for an attack on an industrial centre affiliated to the Iranian Defence Ministry in the central province of Isfahan, purchasing communications tools for Mossad agents, buying vehicles and equipping them with operational instruments, transferring money from Israeli officers to operational agents inside Iran, and renting safe houses in some Iranian provinces. Mizan reported that Langarneshin bought a motorcycle to track Khodaei's movements, relayed the information to Mossad and was present during the killing. Additionally, he was accused of supporting an attack on an industrial site in Isfahan, affiliated with Iran's Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics. According to the report, Langarneshin had confessed to all the "crimes" he had been charged with. Iran cited "extensive intelligence and technical evidence" linking Langarneshin to these operations, and said he "fully confessed" to his involvement. Caught in a decades-long shadow war with Israel, Iran has executed numerous individuals over their alleged links to Mossad, particularly those accused of sabotage and assassination efforts aimed at undermining its nuclear programme. In December 2023, three men and a woman were executed for their alleged links to Mossad. Langarneshin's execution comes amid renewed US-Iran nuclear talks, which Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has accused Israel of attempting to derail. A fourth round of Oman-mediated negotiations between Washington and Tehran is scheduled for Saturday in Rome, according to Tehran.
Mint
30-04-2025
- Politics
- Mint
Iran Says It Executed Prisoner Accused of Spying for Israel
Iran executed a man convicted of spying for Israel and accused of playing a key role in the assassination of an officer of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the state-run Mizan reported. Mohsen Langarneshin was accused of working with Israel's intelligence service Mossad for more than two years after being recruited and trained in 2020, Mizan said, adding that Langarneshin was executed early on Wednesday morning. The Oslo-based Iran Human Rights group said Langarneshin was sentenced after being forced to confess under torture and his parents had kept vigil outside his prison since Tuesday in the hopes that they could save him from execution. IHR had reported in February that Langarneshin was arrested in July 2023 and had been placed in solitary confinement two months ago after being transferred from Tehran's Evin Prison to a provincial detention center on the outskirts of the city. The announcement comes weeks after Iran and the US started indirect talks over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program and as Israel continues its bombardment of Gaza in its war against Tehran-backed Hamas, which is designated a terrorist organization by the US and many of its allies. Langarneshin was accused of being present when IRGC Colonel Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, a senior officer heavily involved in Iran's Syria operations, was shot dead outside his home in Tehran in 2022. Mizan didn't say when Langarneshin was arrested or provide any details of evidence presented at his trial. He was also accused of meeting Mossad officers in Georgia and Nepal and transferring funds on their behalf to other 'operatives' inside Iran. Langarneshin's arrest and sentence hadn't been publicized by Iranian authorities but a number of Iranian human rights groups based abroad had been tracking his case, citing his family. Mizan didn't give any details about his legal representation, adding only that his sentence was carried out 'following the full legal proceedings and the final approval of the verdict by the supreme court.' This article was generated from an automated news agency feed without modifications to text. First Published: 1 May 2025, 04:15 AM IST
CBC
30-04-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Iran says it executed a man who was an Israeli intelligence source
Iran executed a man on Wednesday that it said worked for Israel's foreign intelligence agency and played a role in the 2022 killing of a Revolutionary Guard colonel in Tehran, the official IRNA news agency reported. The report identified the man as Mohsen Langarneshin and said he was hanged. It called him a "senior spy" for the Mossad who provided "technical support" in the assassination of Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, shot five times by gunmen on a motorbike outside his home in Tehran. The agency said the Mossad recruited Langarneshin in 2020 and that he met with Israeli intelligence officers in Georgia and Nepal. Langarneshin reportedly rented safe houses for operatives in several Iranian cities, including Isfahan, when, in January 2023, bomb-carrying drones targeted what Iran described as a military workshop. Iran has accused Israel of being behind the attack. The report said Langerneshin confessed in Iran's Revolutionary Court. The court was established following the 1979 Islamic Revolution and is known for meting out harsh punishments to those who oppose Iran's clerical rulers. It usually provides a court-appointed lawyer and doesn't allow media access. At the time of his assassination, local media identified Khodaei only as a "defender of the shrine," a reference to Iranians who fight against the extremist Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq within the Guard's elite Quds force that oversees foreign operations.
Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Iran executes man accused of helping Israel kill Revolutionary Guards colonel
Iran has executed a 36-year-old man it accused of helping the Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence agency, kill a senior officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in Tehran in 2022. Iranian state media said Mohsen Langarneshin was hanged, the usual method of execution in Iran, at Ghezel Hesar prison early on Wednesday morning. Langarneshin's family and human rights groups insisted the former IT consultant was innocent of the charges against him and that any reported confessions were obtained by torture or blackmail. On Tuesday, Langarneshin's mother made an emotional appeal for his life to be spared. 'Please pray for my child … I do not know if he will see the sunrise tomorrow or not,' she said in a post on social media. 'I don't know why the court refuses to accept any of the documents and evidence we bring. We have so many pieces of evidence that prove his innocence, but nothing is accepted.' According to Iran's state news agency IRNA, Langarneshin was a 'senior spy' for the Mossad who provided critical 'technical support' for the assassination of Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, a colonel in the Revolutionary Guards who was shot five times by gunmen on a motorbike outside his home in Tehran, as well as for other alleged operations. The IRNA report said the Mossad recruited Langarneshin in 2020 and that he met with Israeli intelligence officers in Georgia and Nepal. He was arrested in July 2023. Activists fear that Iran scapegoats innocent people after failing to catch the actual agents, who have often escaped overseas by the time investigators identify them. Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, the director of the Norway-based Iran Human Rights monitor, said: 'Mohsen Langarneshin, who was sentenced to death in an unfair judicial process based on confessions obtained under torture and charged with espionage for Israel, was hanged at dawn today.' 'The Iranian authorities' execution machine is accelerating every day, taking the lives of more people,' he added, describing the executions as 'extrajudicial killings'. At least 335 people have been hanged in Iran so far this year alone, campaigners say. Iran executed more than 900 people in 2024. A man was executed in December 2023 after he was found guilty of collaborating with the Mossad. Four others were hanged a year earlier over alleged ties to Israel. The US-based Abdorrahman Boroumand Center, which had campaigned over Langarneshin's case, said he had been convicted at a revolutionary court presided over by a judge, Abolghasem Salavati, who has been put under US and EU sanctions and is notorious for handing out death sentences. 'He denied all charges, stating that his confessions were extracted under torture,' the group said. The revolutionary courts were set up after the 1979 revolution and deliver often summary justice in closed hearings. Israel and Iran have been engaged in a shadow war of assassinations and bombings for decades. A series of attacks attributed to the Mossad has targeted Iranian scientists, experts and academics, many connected to Iran's nuclear programme. Last year, Israel is thought to have killed Ismail Haniyeh, the most senior political leader of Hamas, with a bomb in a bedroom of a government guesthouse in Tehran In Israel, a 72-year-old man was sentenced on Tuesday to 10 years in prison accused of discussing plots with Iranian intelligence services to assassinate senior government officials, including the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. The US president, Donald Trump, is seeking a new deal with the Iranian leadership on its nuclear programme, with both Israel and its ally the US long refusing to rule out a military strike on Iran. The Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said on Wednesday that Iran expected the next round of negotiations with the US to be held in Rome on Saturday, adding that Iran also anticipated having a meeting on Friday with France, Germany and the UK to discuss the talks.
The Guardian
30-04-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Iran executes man accused of helping Israel kill colonel in Revolutionary Guards
Iran has executed a 36-year-old man it accused of helping the Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence agency, kill a senior officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in Tehran in 2022. Iranian state media said Mohsen Langarneshin was hanged, the usual method of execution in Iran, at Ghezel Hesar prison early on Wednesday morning. Langarneshin's family and human rights groups insisted the former IT consultant was innocent of the charges against him and that any reported confessions were obtained by torture or blackmail. On Tuesday, Langarneshin's mother made an emotional appeal for his life to be spared. 'Please pray for my child … I do not know if he will see the sunrise tomorrow or not,' she said in a post on social media. 'I don't know why the court refuses to accept any of the documents and evidence we bring. We have so many pieces of evidence that prove his innocence, but nothing is accepted.' According to Iran's state news agency IRNA, Langarneshin was a 'senior spy' for the Mossad who provided critical 'technical support' for the assassination of Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, a colonel in the Revolutionary Guards who was shot five times by gunmen on a motorbike outside his home in Tehran, as well as for other alleged operations. The IRNA report said the Mossad recruited Langarneshin in 2020 and that he met with Israeli intelligence officers in Georgia and Nepal. He was arrested in July 2023. Activists fear that Iran scapegoats innocent people after failing to catch the actual agents who have often escaped overseas by the time investigators identify them. 'Mohsen Langarneshin, who was sentenced to death in an unfair judicial process based on confessions obtained under torture and charged with espionage for Israel, was hanged at dawn today,' said Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, the director of the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) monitor. 'The Iranian authorities' execution machine is accelerating every day, taking the lives of more people,' he said, describing the executions as 'extrajudicial killings'. At least 335 people have been hanged in Iran so far this year alone, campaigners say. Iran executed more than 900 people in 2025. A man was executed in December 2023 after he was found guilty of collaborating with the Mossad. Four others were hanged a year earlier over alleged ties to Israel. The US-based Abdorrahman Boroumand Center, which had campaigned over his case, said Langarneshin had been convicted at a revolutionary court presided over by judge Abolghasem Salavati, sanctioned by the US and EU and notorious for his handing out of death sentences. 'He denied all charges, stating that his confessions were extracted under torture,' the group said. The revolutionary courts were set up after the 1979 revolution and deliver often summary justice in closed hearings. Israel and Iran have been engaged in a shadow war of assassinations and bombings for decades. A series of attacks attributed to the Mossad has targeted Iranian scientists, experts and academics, many connected to Iran's nuclear programme. Last year, Israel is thought to have killed Ismail Haniyeh, the most senior political leader of Hamas, with a bomb in a bedroom of a government guesthouse in Tehran In Israel, a 72-year-old man was sentenced on Tuesday to 10 years in prison accused of discussing plots with Iranian intelligence services to assassinate senior government officials, including the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. The hanging comes as the US president, Donald Trump, seeks to strike a new deal with the Iranian leadership on its nuclear programme, with both Israel and its ally the US long refusing to rule out a military strike on Iran. The Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said on Wednesday that Iran expected the next round of negotiations with the US to be held in Rome on Saturday, adding that Iran also anticipated having a meeting on Friday with France, Germany and the UK to discuss the talks.
