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Teheran prosecutor says man was arrested several times for espionage; received $60,000 for information on military, Revolutionary Guard navigation systems.
The Teheran Prosecutor's Office said that a man accused of spying for Israel was executed in Teheran's Evin Prison early Tuesday morning, official Iranian news agency IRNA reported.
In and out of prison for decades, Ali Akbar Siadati was arrested in 2008 while trying to escape Iran with his wife, according to IRNA.
He was accused of conducting espionage "under the umbrella of business services initially, after which he got in direct contact with one of the Israeli embassies in the region, after which he gradually began dispatching secret military information" to Israel, IRNA reported.
According to the official Iranian news agency, Siadati was arrested again in 2009, when "29 pages of top secret information" were discovered in his briefcase.
He was suspected of meeting Israeli agents in Turkey, Thailand and Holland.
Siadati reportedly confessed to receiving between three and seven thousand dollars for each set of information he delivered, totaling 60,000 dollars.
He was said to have passed on numbers of Iranian military aircraft, training and operational flight information, causes of air disasters, and vital information on Revolutionary Guard air navigation systems.
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Security forces discover large cache of ammunition, weapons and explosives in isolated desert warehouse facility, Ma'an reports.
Egyptian security forces in the Sinai Peninsula recently seized a large store of weapons and explosives that were to be smuggled into the
Gaza Strip, Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported
Tuesday.
The cache of weapons included dozens of anti-aircraft artillery shells and several anti-aircraft missiles, according to the report. The weapons and ammunition were discovered in a hole inside an isolated desert storage facility.
The weapons are usually smuggled into the Gaza Strip from Sinai via tunnels. The
IAF has targeted many of the tunnels in recent weeks in response to rockets and mortars being fired into Israeli territory.
In September, Egyptian police discovered nine weapons caches in the Sinai Peninsula, a week after finding several stores in the same area, Ma'an reported. The weapons, which officials believed were meant to be smuggled into the Gaza Strip, were found in
Rafah,
El-Arish and other locations in northern and central Sinai.
Egyptian security officials said they found machine guns, ammunition, over 170 anti-aircraft shells, 90 artillery shells, 200 bullets of varying sizes, anti-tank landmines and 100 kilograms of TNT.
