{"id":82077,"date":"2026-05-26T12:27:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/iran-hangs-man-over-alleged-spying-for-israeli-intel-agency-as-executions-mount\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T12:27:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:27:54","slug":"iran-hangs-man-over-alleged-spying-for-israeli-intel-agency-as-executions-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/iran-hangs-man-over-alleged-spying-for-israeli-intel-agency-as-executions-mount\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran hangs man over alleged spying for Israeli intel agency as executions mount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     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arrested or sentenced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Finally, after reviewing the case &#8230; and after legal proceedings and confirmation of the sentence in the Supreme Court, the accused was executed by hanging this morning,&#8221; the report added.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Iran <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live-updates\/iran-us-war-trump-deal-obstacles-remain\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">executed another man<\/a><\/span> after convicting him of carrying out armed attacks during the nationwide anti-government protests that peaked in January.<\/p>\n<p>The day before, Iran hanged Mojtaba Kian over espionage in the first reported execution linked to spying offenses during Iran&#8217;s war with the U.S. and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Iran carries out the second-highest number of executions in the world after China, according to rights groups including Amnesty International.<\/p>\n<p>A doubling of Iranian executions contributed to the world reaching a high for death penalties in 2025 not seen since 1981, an <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/iran-doubled-executions-2025-global-use-death-penalty-hit-44-year-high\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Amnesty report<\/a><\/span> published earlier this month found.<\/p>\n<p>Norway-based Iran Human Rights and Paris-based Together Against the Death Penalty said last month in their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iranhr.net\/media\/files\/2025_Annual_Report_on_the_Death_Penalty.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joint annual report<\/a>\u00a0on the death penalty in Iran that at least 1,639 people were executed in 2025 \u2014 including 48 women.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, a man was executed for his role in a murder committed during another round of protests that rocked Iran in 2022-2023 following the\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/iran-mahsa-amini-us-sanctions-what-happened-since-her-death-one-year-ago\/\" 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