A poster bearing the likeness of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is displayed in a shop in Tehran, Iran, on April 28, 2026. (Credit: Majid Asgaripour/WANA)
Two men accused of spying for Israel were executed by hanging on Saturday in Iran, the judiciary said, in the latest such executions since the start of the conflict with Israel and the United States.
“Yaghoub Karimpour and Naser Bekrzadeh were hanged for intelligence cooperation and espionage on behalf of the Zionist regime,” Mizan, the judiciary’s news agency, reported, without specifying when they were arrested.
According to the same source, Karimpour was convicted of the capital charge of moharebeh (“waging war against God”) for “filming and photographing security and military sites and transmitting these images to a Mossad agent,” referring to Israel’s foreign intelligence service, during the 12-day war between Iran and Israel in June 2025.
Bekrzadeh was also executed for cooperating with Mossad. Mizan said he had provided information on “religious and provincial figures, as well as important sites such as the Natanz region,” home to a key nuclear facility, without specifying when the acts took place.
Arrests and executions have increased in Iran since the start of the conflict triggered by a U.S.-Israeli attack on Feb. 28.
According to human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, Iran carries out the world’s second-highest number of executions after China.
