Overview
- State media identified Keshavarz, 27, as an architecture student arrested in May in Urmia while photographing an army headquarters building.
- Judicial reports said he confessed to more than 200 assignments across Tehran, Isfahan, Urmia, and Shahroud, including photographing sites, planting tracking devices, conducting opinion surveys, and monitoring traffic patterns.
- Authorities cited phone messages tied to Israel, a hotel notebook listing security institutions, and cryptocurrency payments as evidence, with the Supreme Court affirming the death sentence.
- Officials also referenced family ties to the MKO and past involvement as part of their case, assertions that human rights groups say are often paired with coerced confessions extracted under torture.
- The execution adds to a post‑June crackdown, with reports of 11 espionage executions since the summer conflict and an October legal change imposing automatic death sentences and asset seizures for spying for Israel or the US.