Iran says it executed a man who was an Israeli intelligence source

The Associated Press

· Posted: Apr 30, 2025 1:41 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

Iran executed a antheral connected Wednesday that it said worked for Israel's overseas quality bureau and played a relation successful the 2022 sidesplitting of a Revolutionary Guard colonel successful Tehran, the authoritative IRNA quality bureau reported.

The study identified the antheral arsenic Mohsen Langarneshin and said helium was hanged. It called him a "senior spy" for the Mossad who provided "technical support" successful the assassination of Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, changeable 5 times by gunmen connected a motorbike extracurricular his location successful Tehran.

The bureau said the Mossad recruited Langarneshin successful 2020 and that helium met with Israeli quality officers successful Georgia and Nepal.

Langarneshin reportedly rented harmless houses for operatives successful respective Iranian cities, including Isfahan, when, successful January 2023, bomb-carrying drones targeted what Iran described arsenic a subject workshop. Iran has accused Israel of being down the attack.

The study said Langerneshin confessed successful Iran's Revolutionary Court.

The tribunal was established pursuing the 1979 Islamic Revolution and is known for meting retired harsh punishments to those who reason Iran's clerical rulers. It usually provides a court-appointed lawyer and doesn't let media access.

At the clip of his assassination, section media identified Khodaei lone arsenic a "defender of the shrine," a notation to Iranians who combat against the extremist Islamic State radical successful Syria and Iraq wrong the Guard's elite Quds unit that oversees overseas operations.