Speaking in his weekly presser on Tuesday, he said that Reza Asgari, a retiree of Defense Ministry’s aerospace executed after the related court issued the ruling.

Furthermore, Esmaeili said that the individual had worked for many years in the Ministry and had links with the CIA during the last years of his tenure

and after retirement, selling some data relating to the country’s missile program to the American intelligence service.

Iran is serious about its security issues, the spokesman highlighted.

In early June, the spokesman said that another spy linked with foreign intelligence services also sentenced to death.

“Recently an individual named Seyyed Mahmoud Mousavi Majd, who had been connected with Mossad and CIA services and had collected and transmitted intelligence on the location of Martyr General Soleimani has received a death sentence by the Islamic Revolution Court.”