The latent conflict between Israel and Iran continues. Four men were hanged at dawn in Iran on Monday after being sentenced to death for cooperating with Israeli spy services in a plan to sabotage an Iranian defense site, the justice agency said .
The four convicts were arrested on July 23, 2022 while they were preparing an operation against a Ministry of Defense center in Isfahan, a large city in central Iran, on behalf of the Mossad, said the Mizan Online agency. of the judicial authority.
The Ministry of Intelligence then announced that it had “identified a network of agents of the Zionist spy organization, all of whose members had been arrested,” according to Mizan. They were sentenced to death in September 2023.
According to the judicial agency, these four men had been recruited by Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence service, “about a year and a half before the operation.” They were then sent to African countries for “training courses in the military centers of these countries”. Mossad officers were present at these trainings, the agency said.
Mutual accusations
The two countries have been in conflict for years. Israel accuses Iran – which denies it – of wanting to acquire the atomic bomb and says it is seeking by all means to prevent it. Israel also wants to counter Iran’s influence in the Middle East. Tehran in return accuses him of being behind a series of sabotage and assassinations targeting its nuclear program.
In August 2023, Iran claimed to have foiled a “very complex” project initiated by the Mossad to “sabotage” its ballistic missile industry. A few months earlier, in February, Tehran accused Israel of being responsible for a drone attack on a military site in Isfahan.