Overview
- Iran’s judiciary said it executed Yaghoub Karimpour and Nasser Bekrzadeh on charges of working with Israel’s Mossad intelligence service.
- Mizan Online said Karimpour was found guilty of moharebeh, or waging war against God, for filming military and security sites during the June 2025 conflict and sending the material to a Mossad handler.
- Prosecutors said Bekrzadeh passed information on local religious and provincial figures and on sensitive locations, including the Natanz area that hosts a key nuclear facility.
- The judiciary did not specify when the men were arrested, and the UN rights chief reports at least 21 executions and more than 4,000 arrests on security charges since February 28.
- The hangings extend a recent pattern that includes an April 30 execution tied to January’s protests in Isfahan and two executions reported April 20 for alleged Mossad-linked plotting.