Iran executed a man accused of spying for Israel, according to the judiciary's Mizan news agency, which identified him as Kurosh Keyvani.
The man was found "guilty of providing Israel's spy agency, Mossad, with pictures and information about sensitive locations in Iran," Mizan reported on Wednesday.
Locked in a decades-long shadow war with Israel, Iran has executed numerous people it accuses of links to Mossad and of facilitating its operations inside the country.
The previous report of an "Israeli spy" executed by the regime happened on January 28, when the judiciary's media outlet said that a man named Hamidreza Sabet Esmaeilipour was executed for being a Mossad agent.
UN report reveals grave human rights violations in Iran
The Islamic Republic regime committed human rights violations during its crackdown on the January protests, killing thousands and abusing medical facilities in its efforts to suppress public expression, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran, Mai Sato, published in a report last week.
Sato noted that while drafting the report, she found many Iranian families were reluctant to consent to her sharing their testimonies, evidencing fear of regime reprisals at even greater levels than before this year’s nationwide protests.
Noting that the Human Rights Council Resolution 40/20 ostensibly protects public protests from fear reprisal, intimidation, harassment, or assault, Sato published that the regime’s laws and practices relating to demonstrations “fall short of the standards required.”
Iran’s Constitution qualifies the right to organize unarmed gatherings by requiring that they not contravene the “foundations of Islam,” she noted.
The Law on the Activities of Political Parties and Groups (Art. 26, added in 1981) also requires organizations to obtain permission before undertaking demonstrations, and only officially licensed groups may seek such authorizations.
The Islamic Penal Code also criminalizes the establishment of, or membership in, any group of more than two persons deemed by the regime to be aiming to disrupt national security, an aim broadly interpreted by Tehran.
This is a developing story.
Danielle Greyman-Kennard contributed to this report.