Iran on Wednesday executed a man convicted of espionage for Israel’s Mossad spy agency and involvement in the 2022 assassination of a Revolutionary Guards colonel, the judiciary said.

Mohsen Langarneshin, described as “a high-ranking spy” who supported Mossad operations inside Iran, was hanged in the morning, said the judiciary’s Mizan Online news website.

The report did not specify when Langarneshin had been arrested or sentenced.
It said he was implicated in the killing of Guards colonel Sayyad Khodaei, who was gunned down by two motorcyclists on his way home in Tehran in May 2022.

According to The New York Times, Israel told the United States that it was responsible for the killing. The judiciary accused Langarneshin of having “bought a motorcycle to monitor” Khodaei’s movements.

State television in Iran said Khodaei was a member of the Quds Force, the Guards’ foreign operations arms, and that he was “known” in Syria, where Tehran had provided military support for the government of now ousted president Bashar al-Assad.

Iran often announces the arrests of alleged spies, including operatives said to be aiding Tehran’s arch-enemy Israel.
A man was executed in December 2023 after he was found guilty of collaborating with Mossad. Four others were hanged a year earlier over alleged ties to Israel.