An Iranian national has been sentenced to death in Iran after being convicted of providing information to the CIA and Mossad.
AFP via Getty Images, FILEnational has been sentenced to death in Iran after being convicted of providing information to the CIA and Mossad, including information on the location of the country's slain top commander Gen. Qasem Soleimani -- but Iranian officials later clarified that the alleged spy's conviction is not linked to the killing of Soleimani by U.S. forces.
Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani attends Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's meeting with the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps in Tehran, Iran, Sept. 18, 2016. The statement has led to speculations that Mousavi Majd might have been one of the 17 spies whose arrest was announced by Iran intelligence last July.In a July press conference, the director of counterespionage for the Islamic Republic intelligence ministry said that 17 spies working for the CIA were arrested and some of them could face the death penalty. The name of the director was not disclosed.
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