Iran hangs aerospace graduate convicted of CIA and Mossad espionage

Iran's judiciary carried out a death sentence on a 29‑year‑old aerospace engineering graduate in Tehran, hanging him after convicting him of spying for the United States' CIA and Israel's Mossad. The court alleged the student, identified as Ehsan Afreschteh, had collaborated with the foreign intelligence services.

The execution follows a recent string of death sentences in Iran for alleged espionage, underscoring the regime's hard‑line stance against perceived foreign infiltration and prompting concerns from international observers about legal and human‑rights standards.