A former Iranian defense official has been convicted of spying for the US Central Intelligence Agency.
On Tuesday, July 14, representatives of the judicial system of the Islamic Republic.
Convict Reza Askari worked in the airspace department of the ministry and retired in 2016. Last week, he was executed for selling classified information in the United States.
“In the last years of his service, he entered into a conspiracy with the CIA, he sold information about our CIA missiles and took their money,” said Golamkhossein Esmaili, a spokesman for the judiciary.
It is worth noting that this is the second execution that occurred in July. At the same time, a spy was executed in June, who provided Washington with the information necessary for the murder of the famous Iranian military commander Kassem Suleimani.