{"id":958,"date":"2026-05-13T09:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=958"},"modified":"2026-05-13T09:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:58:11","slug":"iran-hangs-man-accused-of-spying-for-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=958","title":{"rendered":"Iran hangs man accused of spying for Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TEHRAN: Iran on Wednesday hanged a man found guilty of selling information to Israeli intelligence, the judiciary said, the latest in a wave of executions during the war with the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since the start of the conflict with Israel and the United States in February, Iran has ramped up executions, particularly in cases involving alleged espionage or security-related charges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEhsan Afreshteh, a spy trained by Mossad in Nepal who sold sensitive information to Israel, has been executed,\u201d said the Iranian judiciary\u2019s Mizan Online website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brecorder.com\/news\/40420594\/iran-executes-man-convicted-of-spying-for-cia-and-mossad\"><strong>Iran executes man convicted of spying for CIA and Mossad<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cArrested and tried for espionage and collaboration with the Zionist regime, he was hanged this morning after\u2026 the verdict was upheld by the Supreme Court,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>Iran is the world\u2019s second-most prolific executioner after China, according to rights groups.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the country hanged an aerospace engineering student who had also been convicted of spying for Israel and the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: Iran on Wednesday hanged a man found guilty of selling information to Israeli intelligence, the judiciary said, the latest in a wave of executions during the war with the country. Since the start of the conflict with Israel and the United States in February, Iran has ramped up executions, particularly in cases involving alleged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}