[ Reuters] A court has sentenced an Iranian man to death on charges of spying for Israel, Iranian media said on Monday. "Ali Ashtari, who had been accused of spying for the Zionist state and charged with engaging in espionage for (Israel's) Mossad intelligence service, has been given the death sentence," the ISNA news agency said. An official in Israel's Foreign Ministry said Saturday that Israel was not familiar with the case.
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