{"id":49108,"date":"2026-04-25T12:04:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=49108"},"modified":"2026-04-25T12:04:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:04:39","slug":"iran-says-it-has-hanged-agent-working-for-israel-over-sabotage-in-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=49108","title":{"rendered":"Iran says it has hanged agent working for Israel over sabotage in protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Iran said it had hanged an \u200bIranian working for \u200cIsraeli intelligence on Saturday for vandalism and \u200bviolence during nationwide \u200bprotests this year, the \u2060semi-official Tasnim news \u200bagency reported.<\/p>\n<p>It said Erfan \u200bKiani, a \u201chired thug of Mossad,\u201d had engaged in \u200bthe destruction and \u200barson of public and private \u200cproperty, \u2060spreading fear and terror across the central city of \u200bIsfahan, and \u200bwielding \u2060a machete. He was hanged \u200bearly in the \u200bmorning \u2060after his sentence was confirmed by \u2060the \u200bSupreme Court \u200band following legal procedures, Tasnim \u200bsaid.<\/p>\n<p>Read: Iran says dual national held for espionage is Swedish<\/p>\n<p>Iran executed a man in December 2025 on charges of spying for Israel&#8217;s intelligence agency, Mossad. This brings the number of convicts Iran has executed on espionage charges since June this year to 10.<\/p>\n<p>The executed man had been identified as Aghil Keshavarz, a 27-year-old architecture student. Keshavarz was arrested by soldiers earlier this year in the northwestern city of Urmia, reportedly while taking photographs of a military headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigative authorities, the accused confessed to taking these photographs for Israel, for which he had received money from Mossad. Iran\u2019s Supreme Court was informed that Keshavarz carried out more than 200 missions for Israeli intelligence in various cities, including Tehran, Isfahan, Urmia and Shahroud. For these missions, Keshavarz was paid in cryptocurrency after completing each assignment, according to authorities.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran said it had hanged an \u200bIranian working for \u200cIsraeli intelligence on Saturday for vandalism and \u200bviolence during nationwide \u200bprotests this year, the \u2060semi-official Tasnim news \u200bagency reported. It said Erfan \u200bKiani, a \u201chired thug of Mossad,\u201d had engaged in \u200bthe destruction and \u200barson of public and private \u200cproperty, \u2060spreading fear and terror across the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}