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View all search resultsIran will execute a CIA agent involved in commander Soleimani's killing
On Jan. 3, a US drone strike in Iraq killed Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds Force.
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A picture published by the media office of the Iraqi military's joint operations forces on their official Facebook page shows a destroyed vehicle on fire following a US strike on January 3, 2020 on Baghdad international airport road in which top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani was killed along with eight others, including the deputy head of Iraq's powerful Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force. Early Friday, a volley of US missiles hit Baghdad's international airport, striking a convoy belonging to the Hashed al-Shaabi, an Iraqi paramilitary force with close ties to Iran. Soleimani was killed in the US strike on the Iraqi capital's airport, according to Hashed, in a dramatic escalation of tensions between Washington and Tehran. (AFP/Iraqi Military)
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n Iranian citizen who provided information to US and Israeli intelligence services about whereabouts of Iran's slain top commander Qassem Soleiman will be executed soon, Iran's judiciary spokesman said on Tuesday.
"Mahmoud Mousavi-Majd, one of the spies for CIA and Mossad has been sentenced to death. He gave the whereabouts of martyr Soleimani to our enemies," said Gholamhossein Esmaili in a televised news conference.
On Jan. 3, a US drone strike in Iraq killed Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds Force.
The Pentagon said US President Donald Trump ordered the killing of Soleimani, who died in Baghdad "in a decisive defensive action to protect US personnel abroad."
The strike, which occurred at Baghdad's international airport also killed the deputy chief of Iraq's powerful Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force.
