Canada backs E3 and urges Iran to resume talks

Choubi-asl, described as a database specialist with access to sensitive national projects, was accused of providing information to Israeli intelligence during meetings in several countries, including India, Armenia and Ireland.

Mizan said Mossad officers trained him, provided secure communications tools and paid him for his cooperation.

“The main goal of Mossad in attracting the defendant’s cooperation was to obtain the database of governmental institutions and create a breach in Iranian data centers,” Mizan reported.

It added that Israeli officers also sought information on electronic equipment imports and engaged him in intelligence-gathering missions.

The judiciary said Choubi-asl met Mossad agents in nine foreign trips, held dozens of meetings, and received financial rewards and training.

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  Iran executed at least 1,000 people so far this year, rights group says

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  Iran executes political prisoner accused of spying for Israel

“The defendant’s deliberate and conscious cooperation with the enemy’s intelligence service was proven,” Mizan quoted court documents as saying.

The court convicted him of “corruption on earth” through collaboration with a foreign intelligence service.

The Supreme Court rejected his appeal and upheld the death sentence, which was carried out on Monday morning, Mizan said.

Iran and Israel have been locked in a long-running shadow war that has escalated this year into direct confrontations, including Israeli airstrikes on Iranian targets in June.

Executions of those accused of spying for Israel have risen in recent months, with at least 10 people put to death on such charges, according to Iranian authorities.

“Pursuant to the process set forth in paragraphs 11 and 12 of Security Council resolution 2231 (2015), effective on 27 September at 8 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, all provisions of resolutions 1696 (2006), 1737 (2006), 1747 (2007), 1803 (2008), 1835 (2008) and 1929 (2010) have been re-applied in the same manner as they applied before the adoption of resolution 2231 (2015) on 20 July 2015," the Office of the Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General said in a note.

The note obtained by Iran International said that accordingly, the sanctions list maintained by the Security Council Committee established pursuant to Resolution 1737 has been re-established and includes 43 individuals and 78 entities that were listed before the adoption of resolution 2231.

The note listed the individuals and entities that have been added back to the United Nations Security Council Consolidated Sanctions List.

"The Zionists (Israel) are seeking to try their luck against Iran once again," Major General Mohsen Rezaei told the state TV.

“However, events will soon happen inside Israel that will make this impossible,” he said. “It is not expedient to talk about them now.”

His remarks came hours after Ynet reported Israel is on heightened alert after the United Nations sanctions were reinstated on Iran under the so-called snapback mechanism, amid fears in the Jewish State that Tehran could accelerate its nuclear activities.

The sanctions were imposed despite several rounds of talks between Tehran and world powers aimed at clinching an agreement on Tehran’s disputed nuclear program.

Rezaei said Tehran will not accept further negotiations with Western powers that give Israel time to prepare or strengthen its position.

“Negotiations aimed at giving Israel time or strengthen it are unacceptable,” the veteran general-turned-politician told the state TV as he was once again seen wearing his military uniform.

“If that happens, the moment Israel starts a war, we will also enter a war with the United States,” said Rezaei who is a member of Iran’s Expediency Council.

“Negotiations must not be accepted in any form, at any price, or without conditions,” he said. “If we enter negotiations, military force must in no way be used against Iran. Otherwise, we will retaliate; not only against Israel, but also against American targets in the region.”

The warning followed fresh statements from Iran’s military leadership emphasizing the country’s readiness to respond to any attack.

Earlier on Sunday, Iran’s armed forces chief of staff Abdolrahim Mousavi said the military is fully prepared to respond to any threat or assault.

“Unity between the army and the Revolutionary Guards is the guarantor of preserving Iran’s territorial integrity,” Mousavi said during a meeting with the Guards’ commander.

“The armed forces are fully ready to confront any threat or possible aggression with strength,” he added.

The chief of staff of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said the country has never initiated a war but will respond forcefully to any attacks, praising President Masoud Pezeshkian’s speech at the UN for highlighting Iran’s position.

“We are a country that has never gone to war with any nation as the initiator, but we will never submit to coercion,” Mohammad Mohammadi-Golpayegani said.

“The president said in his speech that we are not people of war, but if anyone has the slightest malicious intent toward Iran, they will face our decisive blow. We will never submit to force,” he added.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in a letter to his foreign counterparts urged governments not to recognize or comply with the reimposition of UN sanctions on Iran, calling the measures illegal.

Araghchi called on governments "to reject any claims related to the revival of terminated resolutions, avoid incorporating such illegal measures into their national policies and laws, and encourage other countries to uphold multilateralism and resist the misuse of international institutions,” according to the Iranian foreign ministry.

He said that Iran has “always demonstrated its readiness for diplomacy and constructive engagement,” adding that the Islamic Republic will “continue to firmly defend its sovereign rights and legitimate interests.”