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Iran Executes Aghil Keshavarz After Supreme Court Upholds Espionage Verdict

Rights groups question the verdict given Iran's closed espionage trials.

Overview

  • State media identified Keshavarz, 27, as executed on Saturday after the Supreme Court affirmed his conviction for spying for Israel.
  • Iranian authorities say he was arrested in May in Urmia while photographing an army headquarters building.
  • Judicial reports accuse him of more than 200 assignments across Tehran, Isfahan, Urmia and Shahroud, with encrypted contacts and cryptocurrency payments.
  • Official accounts cite confessions and items such as phone messages linked to Israel and a notebook of security addresses, plus alleged ties to the MKO.
  • Human-rights organizations report coerced confessions in similar cases and note a rise in espionage executions since the June conflict, alongside tougher penalties enacted in October.