Iranian courts have convicted and sentenced a man they believe acted as an informant for the United States and Israel in the mission to kill Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
Mahmoud Mousavi-Majd, the man convicted of spying for the CIA and Israel’s Mossad, was sentenced to death on Tuesday for spying on behalf of the two countries. The Iranian government said the death sentence was not connected to the “the terrorist act” of U.S. forces killing Soleimani because the spying occurred “long before.”
“Mahmoud Mousavi-Majd, one of the spies for the CIA and the Mossad, has been sentenced to death … He had shared information about the whereabouts of martyr Soleimani with our enemies,” said judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili. “He passed on security information to the Israeli and American intelligence agencies about Iran’s armed forces, particularly the Guards.”
Esmaili said the execution will be carried out “soon.”
Soleimani was killed by a U.S. airstrike earlier this year near Baghdad. He was known for organizing the proxy terrorist groups that functioned on Iran’s behalf in Iraq.
It is not clear if Mausavi-Majd was one of 17 spies Iran claimed to have captured in the summer of 2019. Many of those captured have been sentenced to death.
