Alleged Iranian Mossad spy confesses to providing intel on nuclear scientists
Ahmad Reza Jalali was sentenced to death in October 2017 for working with Israel's foreign intelligence agency.
By JTAUpdated: DECEMBER 18, 2017 14:17 Bloodstains are seen next to the car belonging to Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan at a blast site outside a university in northern Tehran January 11, 2012.(photo credit: REUTERS/IIPA/SAJAD SAFARI/FILE PHOTO)
An Iranian researcher convicted of spying for Israel’s Mossad intelligence service confessed on Iran state television to providing information to a foreign intelligence service about Iranian nuclear scientists.The four scientists were later assassinated between 2010 and 2012 in an apparent attempt to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program.In the national broadcast Sunday, Ahmad Reza Jalali said he was recruited to an unnamed country’s foreign intelligence service while he was studying in a European country that he also did not name.Jalali has been held in jail in Iran since April 2016. He was convicted and sentenced to death in October 2017 for working with Israel’s Mossad foreign intelligence agency and assisting in the assassination of several senior nuclear scientists. Iran’s Supreme Court upheld his death sentence several months ago.Iran hangs "Mossad agent" Majid Jamali Fashi for scientist killing scientist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, May 16, 2012. (Reuters)Jalali worked as an emergency medicine specialist resident in Sweden. He was a visiting professor at Belgium’s Vrije University when he was arrested during a trip to Iran in April 2016.
