Iran on Monday executed a man convicted of espionage on behalf of Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad.

The Mizan news agency of the Iranian judiciary reported that the individual, identified as Bahman Choubi-Asl, was hanged following judicial proceedings.

His death sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court of Iran, Mizan reported.

The report said Mr Choubi-Asl “was one of Israel’s most important spies in Iran and had consciously and extensively cooperated with Mossad in the area of database.”

According to the report, owing to his presence in a knowledge-based company, Mr Choubi-Asl had managed to enter Iran’s “sensitive” telecommunication projects as manager.

The convict had good access to Iran’s critical and sovereign databases.

In his confessions, Mr Choubi-Asl said that through cooperating with him, Mossad had sought to gain access to Iranian governmental institutions’ databases, infiltrate Iran’s data centres, and explore ways to transfer electronic devices to the country, among other things, Mizan reported.

It reported that the convict had received money, among other things, in return for collecting intelligence for Mossad.

The execution followed a similar one conducted by Iran on September 17 on a man identified as Babak Shahbazi, who was also convicted of espionage for Mossad.

According to Mizan’s report, Mr Shahbazi had been found guilty of intelligence and security cooperation with Israel by selling sensitive information about Iranian data centres to Mossad.

The report stated that in return, he received money and citizenship of a third country.

(Xinhua/NAN)