Iran Executes Two Men Convicted of Spying for Israel

Iranian authorities on Monday executed two men convicted of spying on behalf of Israel, the country’s judiciary said. The latest of a growing number of hangings linked to alleged Mossad collaboration since Iran’s war with Israel and the United States began earlier this year.

The Judiciary’s media arm, Mizan Online, identified the men as Omid Behzad and Pouria Safvat. According to the judiciary’s statement, the two were hanged on Monday morning after being found guilty of “espionage and collaboration with the Zionist regime.”

According to Mizan, Behzad and Safvat transmitted the coordinates of sensitive military and security sites to Mossad agents, Israel’s foreign intelligence service. The judiciary said the pair “helped the intelligence services achieve their objectives by providing them with information on military and security centres during the war.”

A separate judiciary statement described the men as operatives who had supplied coordinates, images, and intelligence on Iranian military and security centres during the twelve-day war of June 2025 and the forty-day conflict in February 2026. Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Organisation said it identified and arrested the two men while they were allegedly engaged in intelligence cooperation with Israel.

The executions come five months into a war that began on 28 February, when Israeli and United States strikes on Iran triggered a broader regional conflict. A ceasefire has held since 8 April, though tensions remain high, with the Iranian foreign ministry saying talks with Oman over the Strait of Hormuz are nearing completion.

Since the war began, Tehran has sharply increased the pace of executions, with many of the condemned accused of spying for Israeli intelligence. Rights groups, including Amnesty International, describe Iran as the world’s second-most prolific executioner after China. According to Iran Human Rights and Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM), Iran executed more than one thousand five hundred people last year, a record high since 1989.
Israeli authorities have not commented on Monday’s executions.

Iran’s judiciary chief has said the country will show no leniency in carrying out death sentences despite international pressure to halt executions. Rights organisations are expected to continue tracking and documenting the wave of espionage-related hangings as the fragile ceasefire between Iran and Israel holds.