Iran executed four individuals on Friday, one of whom was a woman, because they were "saboteurs" connected to Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, according to the judiciary-affiliated news agency Mizan.
The five executions brought the total number of people executed this month in the decades-long shadow war to five. Israel has never acknowledged or denied Iran's accusations that it has attacked its nuclear program.
The news agency said that "four members of a sabotage team associated with the Zionist regime... were executed this morning following legal procedures," accusing them of carrying out "extensive" actions against Iran's security under the direction of Mossad officers.
The killings on Friday in the province of West Azerbaijan came after the execution of a fifth alleged Mossad agent in Iran's southeast province of Sistan-Baluchestan in mid-December.
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The woman, Nasim Namazi, and the four people who were executed on Friday were identified by the semi-official Tasnim news agency as Vafa Hanareh, Aram Omari, and Rahman Parhazo.
It further stated that they were the main guilty parties in a case involving ten offenders, though it was not immediately apparent if the other defendants would also be put to death.
The men appeared in a nearly eight-minute video clip released by the official IRNA news agency, confessing to their alleged cooperation with a Mossad agent in neighboring Turkey who went by the names Tony and Arash.
