TEHRAN: Iran on Monday executed a former translator convicted of spying on its forces for the United States and Israel, including help to locate a top Iranian general killed later in a US drone strike. “Mahmoud Mousavi Majd’s sentence was carried out on Monday morning over the charge of espionage so that the case of his betrayal to his country will be closed forever,” the judiciary’s Mizan Online website reported. Majd had spied “on various security fields, especially the armed forces, and the Quds Force and the whereabouts and movements of martyr General Qassem Soleimani,” judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili told a news conference earlier this month.

Source: Manila Times July 21, 2020 16:29 UTC