Iran’s judiciary on Tuesday said it has convicted three people of spying for the United States, sentencing one of them to death and jailing two others. Yet another man was jailed for spying for the United Kingdom.
Spokesman for the Iranian judiciary , Gholamhossein Esmaili said the two men, Ali Nafariyeh and Mohammadali Babapour received 10-year prison sentences for working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Mr. Esmaili said the third person Mohammad Amin Nasab was jailed for 10 years for aiding British intelligence, adding that he would not identify the person sentenced to death because the verdict was subject to appeal.
It was however not clear if any of the convicts was among the 17 people who Iran’s Intelligence Ministry said had been arrested for spying for the CIA earlier this year.
The Ministry alleged that the convicted persons had been collecting information in nuclear and military facilities and in the private sector, allegations that US President, Donald Trump dismissed as totally false.
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