Saturday, August 9, 2025 - Iran’s judiciary has announced it is investigating the cases of 20 people arrested over alleged links with Israel following the recent 12-day war between the two countries.
“These cases were immediately filed under the supervision of
the esteemed investigators and are being investigated,” Judiciary spokesman
Asghar Jahangir told reporters in Tehran on Saturday, August 9, adding that
further details would be released as the process continues.
In late July, Iran’s intelligence agency said it had
identified and detained “20 spies, Mossad operational and support agents, and
elements connected to the regime’s (Israel’s) intelligence officers in Tehran”
and several other provinces.
The arrests came weeks after Israel launched an
unprecedented bombing campaign against Iran in mid-June, killing senior
military commanders, nuclear scientists, and hundreds of others. The strikes
targeted military and nuclear facilities as well as residential areas. Iran
retaliated with missile and drone attacks.
Iran has pledged swift trials for those accused of
collaborating with Israel. “The judicial system will not show any mercy in
dealing with spies and Zionist agents and will teach a lesson to all spies…
with firm rulings,” Jahangir said.
On Wednesday, August 6 Iranian authorities executed Roozbeh
Vadi, who was convicted of spying for Israel by passing information about
Iranian nuclear sites and scientists. According to the Fars news agency, Vadi
worked at the Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute, a subsidiary
of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.
Iranian media also published a screenshot of an academic
paper co-authored by Vadi alongside two nuclear scientists, Ahmad
Zolfaghar and Abdolhamid Minouchehr, who were killed during the conflict.
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