{"id":223538,"date":"2026-01-07T11:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T07:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=223538"},"modified":"2026-01-07T11:21:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T07:21:31","slug":"iran-executes-man-accused-of-spying-for-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/223538\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran executes man accused of spying for Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Iran executed a man accused of spying for Israel, <a href=\"http:\/\/reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/iran-executes-man-accused-spying-israel-snn-says-2026-01-07\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> writes, referring to the Iranian judiciary&rsquo;s media outlet Mizan.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant is named as Ali Ardestani.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The death sentence of Ali Ardestani for the crime of espionage in favour of the Mossad intelligence service by providing the country&rsquo;s sensitive information was carried out after approval by the Supreme Court and through legal procedures,&rdquo; Mizan said.<\/p>\n<p>As noted, executions of Iranians convicted of spying for Israel have significantly increased this year, following a direct confrontation between the two regional enemies in June, when Israeli and U.S. forces struck Iran&rsquo;s nuclear facilities.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran executed a man accused of spying for Israel, Reuters writes, referring to the Iranian judiciary&rsquo;s media outlet Mizan. The defendant is named as Ali Ardestani. &ldquo;The death sentence of Ali Ardestani for the crime of espionage in favour of the Mossad intelligence service by providing the country&rsquo;s sensitive information was carried out after approval [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":223534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223539,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223538\/revisions\/223539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}