‘Iran executed 4 people it says spied for Israel’

CAIRO : Iranian authorities executed four people Sunday accused of working for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, the state-run IRNA news agency said. Three others received prison sentences.

IRNA said the country’s Revolutionary Guard announced the arrests of a network of people linked to the Israeli agency. It said the members had previous criminal records and tried to disrupt the country’s security. Network members stole and destroyed private and public property and kidnapped individuals and interrogated them, according to the report.

It said the alleged spies had weapons and received wages from Mossad in the form of cryptocurrency. Iranian authorities provided no evidence for any of the alleged crimes. Three other members of the group received sentences of five to 10 years in prison, according to IRNA. They were arrested and sentenced to death in June on charges of “intelligence cooperation with Israel. ”