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Iran airs 'confessions' of researcher facing death for spying

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18-12-2017 | 09:17

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Iranian state television broadcast on Sunday (December 17) what it described as the confessions of an Iranian academic with Swedish residency who it said had provided information to Israel to help it assassinate several senior nuclear scientists.

Iran's Supreme Court upheld last week a death sentence against Ahmadreza Djalali, a doctor and lecturer at the Karolinska Institute, a Stockholm medical university.

His wife, Vida Mehrannia, speaking by telephone from Stockholm, said he had been forced by his interrogators to read a pre-agreed confession on camera.

Djalali was arrested in Iran in April 2016 and later convicted of espionage. He denied the charges.

In the television report, Djalali was linked to the assassination of four Iranian scientists between 2010 and 2012 that Tehran said was an Israeli attempt to sabotage its nuclear energy program.

Djalali said in the report that he had given the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad information about key nuclear scientists. The film said Djalali had agreed to cooperate with Israel in return for money and residency of a European country.

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