Iran executes former official Alireza Akbari over episonage charges

Tehran: Former Iranian deputy defense minister Alireza Akbari was executed on charges of "espionage against the country," the Mizan news agency of the Iranian judiciary reported on Saturday.

Iran court pronounces ex-official guilty of 'spying for Britain'; sentences to death

Tehran: Iran's judiciary handed down a death sentence to a former Iranian Defense Ministry official on the charge of espionage against the country.