Friday, February 04, 2005

Iran gives `Israeli spy' 10 years in jail

Reuters:
Iran has sentenced a person to 10 years in prison for spying for the Islamic state's arch-enemy Israel, a senior judiciary official was quoted as saying yesterday.

The semi-official Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA), citing Tehran's Revolutionary Court chief Ali Mobasheri, gave no further details and did not specify whether the convicted spy was an Iranian or an Israeli citizen. ...

"It concerns a spy who worked for Israel," Mobasheri said. "The spy has been sentenced to 10 years in prison." ...

Iran's judiciary spokesman told a weekly news conference on Wednesday that one of four people arrested for spying on Iran's atomic facilities had been tried and sentenced. He gave no further details. ...