Two men convicted of spying for Israel were executed in Iran on Saturday. Referring to the Iranian judicial authorities, AFP reported about it, writes TASR. The first of those executed was convicted of the crime of “moharebeh” – enmity against God – which, according to the court, he committed in June 2025 during the 12-day war between Iran and Israel, when he allegedly filmed and photographed security and military objects and then passed these materials to an officer of the Israeli intelligence service Mossad.
The second of those executed cooperated with the Mossad by providing it with information on “religious and provincial officials as well as important locations, for example, about (Iran’s) Natanz province”, which is home to a major nuclear facility. However, it is unclear whether his activities occurred during the war. Iran has carried out a number of executions in recent weeks of people convicted of collaborating with Israel or linked to mass protests in January 2026, which authorities attribute to Israel, the United States and opposition groups, including the outlawed People’s Mujahideen.
Iran, together with China, has long been among the countries with the highest number of executions in the world, in both cases it is thousands or hundreds of cases a year. However, information about the exact numbers is often kept secret in both countries, and especially in China.
