A former Iranian defense ministry employee convicted of selling the country’s nuclear information to the CIA was executed, the Iranian judiciary confirmed on Tuesday.
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The execution of Reza Asgari, a retired airspace employee, occurred last week, judicial spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said, according to Associated Press reports.
“In the last few years of his service, he joined the CIA, sold information about our missiles … to the CIA, and took money from them,” Esmaili said. “He was identified, tried and sentenced to death.”
He did not mention when Asgari was arrested, tried or sentenced. There were no immediate comments from US officials about his execution.
The government said it will also proceed with the execution of Mahmoud Mousavi Majd, accused of spying on the Iranian army. He is also accused of helping to inform the United States of the whereabouts of former Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRGC).
Soleimani died in a United States-led airstrike at Baghdad International Airport in January.
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Iran has executed several other spies convicted by the United States. In June, a former Defense Ministry employee who admitted to accepting CIA money to exchange information was hanged in his cell in Tehran.
In 2016, a former nuclear scientist was executed for spying on behalf of the U.S.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
