Iran executes 4 over spying for Israel; had weapons, paid in crypto: Report

Iranian authorities executed four people on Sunday accused of working for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, Associated Press reported quoting state-run IRNA news agency.

IRNA said the country’s powerful Revolutionary Guard announced the arrests of a network of people linked to the Israeli agency and said that the members had stolen and destroyed private and public property, kidnapped individuals and interrogated them.

The report said the alleged spies had weapons and received wages from Mossad in the form of cryptocurrency.