Iran executes man convicted of spying for CIA

Iran has executed a man convicted of spying for the CIA and Israel's Mossad intelligence agency.

Mahmoud Mousavi-Majd was accused of reporting on the movements of Iranian forces in Syria and of spying on the Revolutionary Guards commander, Qasem Soleimani.

Soleimani was killed in a US drone strike earlier this year.

Last week Iran executed a former defence ministry employee convicted of selling information to the US.

The Iranian judiciary's official news agency Mizan Online said that Majd's death sentence "was carried out on Monday morning over the charge of espionage so that the case of his betrayal to his country will be closed forever".