Spies hanged in Iran

Mohammad Heidari, one of the executed men, had prepared information in a number of security issues of the country.

Heidari had given them to the Israeli Mossad in several meetings outside of the country, said the report.
Heidari received money in return for the information he had availed to the Israeli Mossad, according to IRIB.

Another convicted man was, reportedly, Kourosh Ahmadi, who also had links with the CIA elements, collected information about Iran in a number of areas and gave them to the CIA.

In the past years, Iranian security and judiciary officials occasionally said that they had arrested locals and non-locals linked to several Israeli and US spying networks.
In 2009, Iran detained three US hikers for illegally entering Iran and espionage charges.

The female hiker, Sarah Shourd, was freed in 2010 on a bail of US$500,000, and the other two, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, were released in September 2011, also on a bail of US$500,000 each.

In May 2012, an Iranian court sentenced 13 people found guilty of involvement in espionage activities for the Israeli intelligence agency, said Iranian media.
Branch 15 of Tehran’s Revolution Court stated that the convicts had been lured into spying for the Mossad by overseas-based satellite television networks and clever advertisement campaigns. — Xinhua.