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Iran Executes Two Men Convicted of Spying for Israel

Iran put two men to death on Saturday after convicting them of spying for Israel, according to the judiciary, marking the latest in a series of executions carried out in recent weeks.  "Yaghoub Karimpour and Nasser Bekrzadeh were hanged for the crime of intelligence cooperation and espionage in favor of the Zionist regime," the judiciary's Mizan Online website said. It was not immediately clear when the two men were arrested. Mizan said Karimpour was convicted of the capital offence of "moharebeh," or waging war against God,…