TEHRAN, Dec 1 (NNN-ISNA) – The Iranian judiciary, announced yesterday, four members of a “thugs network, linked with Israeli intelligence service, Mossad,” who were arrested in the country in late May, have been sentenced to death.
Those members of the “Mossad-led network” were charged with stealing and destroying both public and private properties, as well as, abducting individuals and extracting false confessions from them, after they were detained, in a joint operation by Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and Intelligence Ministry, the judiciary’s media centre was quoted as saying.
Following due legal procedures, final court rulings have been issued on the cases of the network’s seven members, the report says, adding, four of them, namely Hossein Ordoukhanzadeh, Shahin Imani Mahmoud Abad, Milad Ashrafi and Manouchehr Shahbandi, were sentenced to death, on charges of “carrying out intelligence cooperation with Israel, and kidnapping.”
The rest of the network’s members were given prison terms ranging from five to 10 years, for “committing crimes against Iran’s national security, complicity in kidnapping, and keeping arms,” according to the report.
On May 22, the IRGC announced in a statement, the arrest of the “Mossad-linked network of thugs,” according to the semi-official Mehr news agency.–
