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Iran executes Mossad spy
Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:10:19 GMT
Mossad spy in Iran, Ali Ashtari, was arrested before he could sell the equipment to the 'special customers' in Iran.
Iran has executed a man convicted of engaging in espionage for Israel and acting against the national security of the Islamic Republic.

"Ali Ashtari, who was sentenced to death for spying for the Israeli regime's intelligence agency, was hanged on Monday," the counter-espionage director of the intelligence ministry said on Saturday.

On June 30, Ashtari, 45, was found guilty of relaying sensitive information on military, defense and research centers to intelligence officers working for the infamous Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad.

Ashtari confessed that Mossad had paid him $50,000 to buy internet cables and satellite phones and then sell them on to 'special customers' in the hope of enabling Israel to spy on their communications.

Israeli 'handlers,' whom Ashtari met in Thailand, Turkey and Switzerland, wanted him "to sell these terminals in Iran to special customers so they could hack into this equipment," he said.

Iran says Israel and its key ally, the United States, have launched a campaign of psychological warfare in Iran in an attempt to provoke fear and destabilize the Islamic Republic.

The Daily Telegraph in early 2008 reported that CIA officials are secretly funding militias among the numerous ethnic minorities clustered in Iran's border regions in order to destabilize the country.

"The latest attacks inside Iran fall in line with US efforts to supply and train Iran's ethnic minorities to destabilize the Iranian regime," said Fred Burton, a former US State Department counter-terrorism agent.