ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iran has executed a man accused of spying for Israel’s intelligence agency, the country’s judiciary said on Wednesday.
Ehsan Afrashteh, 32, was arrested in 2024 and sentenced to death in 2025 on espionage charges.
Mizan Online, which is affiliated with the Iranian judiciary, reported early Wednesday that Afrashteh had been executed.
The outlet claimed that he was trained in Nepal by Mossad to work as a spy and had sold “sensitive national information” to Tel Aviv.
Iranian authorities on Monday executed Erfan Shakurzadeh, who was accused of espionage and cooperation with US and Israeli intelligence agencies.
The new executions come amid a broader crackdown that has seen dozens executed since the start of the war.
Iran has long used the death penalty as a tool of state repression and to stifle dissent. Rights groups say authorities have executed at least two dozen political prisoners since the start of the war on February 28. The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported that Iran carried out 2,063 executions in 2025 - the highest number recorded in around three and a half decades.