Iran executes Reza Askari convicted of spying for CIA

Tehran: A retired employee of Iran’s Defence Ministry was hanged for spying for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Tasnim news agency reported.

The spy, named Reza Askari, was executed last week after trial for providing the CIA with information on Iran’s missile programme, Gholam Hossein Esmaili, the Judiciary spokesperson, was quoted by Tasnim as saying.

After retirement from the Defence Ministry’s Aerospace Department in 2012, Askari was connected with the CIA and sold information on the production of Iranian missiles in exchange for money.