Iran has sentenced three individuals to loss of life over the 2020 assassination of one of many nation’s prime nuclear scientists, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the judiciary stated on Tuesday.
“The judicial processes of those three individuals had been carried out within the Revolutionary Courtroom of Urmia, and so they had been sentenced to loss of life within the preliminary stage, and the case is presently within the enchantment stage,” judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangir informed a Tehran press convention.
Fakhrizadeh was killed when his automotive was ambushed on a freeway exterior the capital in November 2020, in an assault Iran blamed on its sworn enemy Israel.
“After some investigations, three individuals out of eight arrested in West Azarbaijan province, had been accused of committing espionage for the occupying regime of Israel,” Jahangir stated.
He added that the three are additionally “accused of transporting tools into Iran for the assassination of martyr Fakhrizadeh underneath the guise of smuggling alcoholic drinks”.
In December 2022, then judiciary spokesman Massoud Setayeshi stated 9 individuals had been charged with the capital offence of “corruption on earth” for his or her suspected collusion with Israel within the assassination.
Fakhrizadeh had been underneath US sanctions for his position in Iran’s nuclear programme when he was killed.
Iranian authorities stated the attackers used a bomb and a remote-controlled machine gun.
Israel has by no means commented on the killing.
In 2018, the Israeli authorities accused Fakhrizadeh of main Iran’s efforts to develop an atomic bomb, a declare Iran has all the time vehemently denied.
