{"id":401307,"date":"2026-04-20T07:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T07:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/401307\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T07:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T07:20:08","slug":"iran-executes-2-over-alleged-links-to-israeli-spy-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/401307\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran executes 2 over alleged links to Israeli \u2018spy network\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serdar Dincel<\/p>\n<p>20 April 2026\u2022Update: 20 April 2026<\/p>\n<p>Iranian authorities on Monday executed two people over alleged links to a \u201cspy network\u201d connected to Israel\u2019s intelligence agency, Mossad.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were found guilty of undergoing advanced training, including in secure communications, helping identify sensitive locations and producing explosive devices, Iran\u2019s state broadcaster IRIB reported.<\/p>\n<p>They were also accused of setting fires at military and public sites and sending footage of the incidents to handlers in exchange for cryptocurrency payments, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>The executions come as hundreds of Iranians have been detained on accusations of cooperating \u201cwith the enemy\u201d since the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran, which has killed more than 3,300 people since Feb. 28.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the offensive, Tehran launched retaliatory strikes on Israel and other regional countries hosting US assets.<\/p>\n<p>A two-week ceasefire between Washington and Tehran, mediated by Pakistan, was announced on April 8.<\/p>\n<p>The sides also held talks in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, which ended without agreement on April 12, with efforts for another round of negotiations ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serdar Dincel 20 April 2026\u2022Update: 20 April 2026 Iranian authorities on Monday executed two people over alleged links&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-401307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}