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Alleged Israel collaborator and assassin Majid Jamali Fashi, 24, was executed by hanging in Tehran on Tuesday.An Israeli spy who allegedly assassinated an Iranian nuclear scientist two years ago was executed by hanging at Tehran’s Evin Prison on Tuesday, Iran’s state media reported.

Majid Jamali Fashi, 24, was arrested in January 2011 on charges he killed Masoud Ali Mohammadi, who died in northern Tehran when an explosive detonated near his car as he was heading off to work on the morning of January 12, 2010.

Fashi was also convicted on the charge that he visited Israel, where he reportedly received instructions from the Mossad on how to conduct the bombing and $120,000 to fund his subsequent operations. In a video shown in Iranian media in January 2011, Fashi ostensibly confessed to having committed the crime and collaborated with Israel. He also said the Mossad only paid half of what they promised for the assassination. In August 2011, Fashi was placed on trial and convicted of the aforementioned charges, and his appeal was later denied by Iran’s Supreme Court.

According to the New York Post, local Iranian media reported on August 28 that Fashi had been sentenced to death after being “convicted of Moharebeh [waging war against G-d] for placing a bomb-laden bike and blowing it up in front of martyr Ali Mohammadi’s home, in collaboration with the Zionist regime and Mossad.”

Press TV reported on Sunday that, aside from Fashi, thirteen other Iranians were convicted on charges of having spied for the Israel. The spies were allegedly recruited via overseas satellite channels and lured through strategic advertising campaigns.

The “Group of 13,” as the thirteen alleged spies have been dubbed, was arrested last month. The spies were reportedly planning an attack for February 10, around the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Western powers have allegedly been responsible for the killing of at least five Iranian nuclear scientists since 2007. Such covert operations are part of the West’s attempt to deter Iranian nuclear progress, along with stringent economic sanctions and diplomatic pressures. Iran has repeatedly blamed Israel’s Mossad, the American CIA, and the UK’s MI-6 for having led the assassinations. Israel has not responded to the accusations, while the others two nations have denied responsibility.

At the time of the assassination of Mohammadi in January 2010, Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization said the 50-year-old nuclear physicist was not involved in Tehran’s nuclear operations, Reuters reported.
On January 11, 2012, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, another Iranian scientist— who worked at Tehran’s Natanz uranium enrichment plant— was traveling in the early morning hours, and scheduled to attend a memorial for Ali Mohammadi later that day. In the midst of northern Tehran’s early morning traffic, two motorcyclists weaved through the streets and slapped a magnetic bomb on the vehicle Roshan was riding in. It detonated instantly, and Roshan, along with his driver, died in the aftermath. The former university professor was the last Iranian nuclear scientist to have been taken out, ostensibly, by Western covert ops.

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