An Iranian court upheld the death sentence of an Iranian convicted of spying for the CIA, after being convicted of "revealing details of the CIA's nuclear program."
Ghulam Hussain Ismaili, a spokesman for the Iranian judiciary, revealed the identity of the spy as Amir Rahimpour, and said that the death sentence will be carried out soon, without elaborating on Rahimpour's charges, age, or background.
However, a report by the official news agency (IRNA) claimed that Rahimpour had received money from the CIA to leak details of Iran's nuclear program.
"While in contact with the espionage agency, Rahimpour received a large sum of money as a salary to deliver information about Iran's nuclear program to the US agency," the report said.
The Iranian agency added that Rahimpour "was revealed and tried, and a death sentence was issued and recently the National Supreme Court upheld the verdict, and God willing, he will be punished soon."
Ismaili explained that two other alleged spies for the agency were each sentenced to 15 years in prison: 10 years for espionage and 5 years for threatening state security.
But Ismaili did not give their names, and only said that they were working "in the charitable field," and he did not continue.
Iran has in the past sentenced to death alleged spies of the United States and Israel.
Shahram Amiri was the latest spy executed by Tehran, who defected and went to the United States at the height of Western efforts to thwart Iran's nuclear program.
When he returned in 2010, he was welcomed and received by government officials, with flowers, appearing on numerous television talk shows, and then mysteriously disappeared.
The authorities executed him in August 2016, in the same week that Tehran executed a group of militants, and a year after Iran agreed to a landmark nuclear agreement that limits Tehran's uranium enrichment capabilities in exchange for lifting economic sanctions.
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