The Iranian news agency SNN, or Student News Network, reported that a man named Roozbeh Vadi had been found guilty of "espionage and intelligence cooperation in favor of the Zionist regime" and hanged on August 5.

"The defendant was active in one of the country's important and sensitive organizations and, given the level of access he had, had become an attractive subject for the Zionist regime's spy service," it said.

The news agency did not elaborate on which organization Vadi worked for but said he had traveled to Vienna five times, including for training, where he met Mossad agents.

In the course of his "extensive cooperation with the Zionist regime," the man "provided information to the Mossad spy service about one of our country's nuclear scientists who was martyred in the recent Israeli aggression," SNN reported.