Iran Sentences 3 People to Death Over Assassination of Nuclear Scientist

Published on November 6, 2024

Three people have been sentenced to death in Iran after being convicted of spying for Israel in relation to the assassination in 2020 of a top nuclear scientist, according to an Iranian news agency. The semi-official Fars news agency quoted an Iranian judiciary spokesman, Asghar Jahangir, as saying the three unidentified individuals had “transferred equipment for the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.” Jahangir said they had been sentenced to death “at the preliminary stage” of the prosecution. Fars said a fourth defendant was sentenced to death in connection with another unspecified incident of espionage. On Nov. 27, 2020, Fakhrizadeh was shot and killed in Absard city near Damavand, which is around 40 miles east of Tehran....

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