June 27 – Three men have been executed in Iran, after they were convicted of collaborating with Israel’s Mossad intelligence unit, according to the official news agency of Iran’s judiciary.
The executions follow an oppressive crackdown on Iran’s citizens in recent days following revelations that Mossad infiltrated Iran months before Israel’s attack on the Islamic Republic which began on June 13 and ended on Wednesday.
Iranian authorities arrested more than 700 people during the conflict, and accused several of spying for Israel. Human rights campaigners say the arrests are unjust and that many of the charges have been fabricated.
France said it had evidence that Iran had used intermediaries to hire drug traffickers to carry out activities in France on its behalf and could do so again, in a statement made by France’s Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau.
The minister said that Iran had used proxies that were often linked to drug traffickers, but it was unlikely the agents knew the work had been contracted by the Iranian regime.
France remains on high alert following U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities which took place on June 21.
And a senior military official who was believed to have been assassinated by Israel during this month’s armed conflict was seen in Tehran on Tuesday.
Esmail Qaani, a high ranking military general, was seen speaking with Iranians during an event in the capital city.
Qaani helped to plan the October 2023 attack on Israel by the proxy militia group Hamas, which left more than 1,200 people in Israel dead and saw hundreds of people taken hostage and held in Gaza.
