Judiciary Media Center: Mahmoud Mousavi Majd Executed

Iranian media outlets, citing the Judiciary of the Islamic Republic, report that Mahmoud Mousavi Majd, referred to as a “CIA and Mossad spy,” has been executed.

News agencies and domestic media outlets in Iran, citing the Judiciary’s Media Center, state that “on the morning of July 21, the execution of spy Mahmoud Mousavi Majd, who had been sentenced to death, was carried out.”

The Judiciary of the Islamic Republic confirmed the death sentence for Mahmoud Mousavi Majd on June 10.

However, hours after the Judiciary’s spokesperson linked the death sentence to providing “information about the location and movements” of Qasem Soleimani, the slain commander of the Quds Force, to foreign intelligence services, the Judiciary’s Media Center announced that his case had no connection to Soleimani’s killing in Iraq.

The Judiciary’s Media Center had stated that Mousavi Majd’s case dated back to “months before the killing of the Quds Force commander” and the original death sentence was “issued on September 24, 2019.”

A few days later, on June 15, Gholamhossein Esmaili, the Judiciary’s spokesperson, stated that he had been in contact with Iranian forces in Syria, “was residing in Syria” and “his family also resides in Syria.”

Tasnim News Agency also claimed on June 16 that Mahmoud Mousavi Majd, “who grew up in Syria,” was in contact with “some Iranian advisors” there and “under the cover of a driver” collected information, and by “selling it to the intelligence services of Israel and America… received a monthly salary of 5,000 dollars from these services.”

However, prior to this, a Twitter account that apparently began publishing information about the case on Tuesday, June 10, under the name “Sayed Mahmoud Mousavi Majd,” had reported that this citizen “was residing in Syria and served as a soldier due to his proficiency in Arabic and Persian.”

This account remained active in recent days and opposed the execution of Mahmoud Mousavi Majd. For instance, on July 17, it wrote: “Sayed Mahmoud also has a family, wants justice, wants retrial, wants a real lawyer with presence, wants open trial, wants espionage evidence, not just forced confession, his lawyer came and went and said I no longer exist.”

Despite all this, last Tuesday, after the Judiciary’s spokesperson announced the execution of a person named “Reza Asgari,” a retired Defense Ministry employee, who according to him was “a CIA spy,” he emphasized that the death sentence for Mahmoud Mousavi Majd was “final” and “enforceable.”

The Islamic Republic and its judicial system face widespread protests and accusations from monitoring bodies and human rights organizations regarding the extraction of “forced confessions,” disregard for basic principles of trial such as access to a lawyer of choice, and transparent and open proceedings and trials.

In recent days, following the confirmation of death sentences for three detainees arrested during November protests, a widespread wave of virtual protests with the hashtag #DontExecute took shape, which gained international resonance.

Executions of citizens in Iran and China exceed any other country in the world.

Source: Radio Farda