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Four people sentenced to death for

“spying” for Israeli intelligence in Iran

MIDDLE EAST A court in Iran has sentenced four people to
death for allegedly collaborating with Israeli
intelligence, Mehr News Agency reported on
December 1.
According to the publication, three more
individuals were sentenced to terms of five to ten
years in prison. Those three were convicted on
charges -of acting against Iran’s national secu-
rity, complicity in kidnapping and possession of
illegal weapons.
Further identifying details on the defend-
ants were not released to the Iranian press by the
judiciary.
The details of the trials have come to light Maj.-Gen. Abdolrahim Mousavi says Iran’s armed forces are prepared
as thousands of people are being convicted of to stave off any foreign threat facing the country (Photo: Iran Press)
crimes against the state following months of
protests against the Islamic Republic. Republic’s interests in high seas,” Major General
Following the announcement of the sen- Abdolrahim Mousavi said.
tences, the chief commander of the Iranian “The Ground Force’s units are stationed on
Army said the country’s Armed Forces are fully the country’s borders in complete readiness.
prepared to take on any foreign threat that could Our Air Defence Force is also observing and
be facing the Islamic Republic. surveilling the country’s [air]space 24 hours;
“The sailing vessels of the Iranian Navy are and our Air Force [too] is constantly patrolling
currently engaged in defending the Islamic Iran’s skies,” the commander added. ™

IGEDC proclaims Iran’s readiness to

engage in Iraqi oil and gas projects

MIDDLE EAST THE head of Iranian Gas Engineering and
Development Co. (IGEDC) has declared his
country’s readiness to participate in oil and gas
developments in neighbouring Iraq.
Reza Noshadi, the CEO of IGEDC, stated
that Iran owns the largest gas network in the
world and gas consumption in Iran is 65% of the
European Union.
“The huge investment of National Iranian
Gas Co. (NIGC) in the development of the sixth
nationwide gas pipeline from Assalouyeh to
the export bases in Naftshahr and Shalamcheh
proved that Iran is determined to expand its IGEDC head Reza Noshadi says Iran should invest more in Iraq (Photo: Shana)
relations with its neighbour, Iraq. Despite this,
we witnessed that most of the Iranian compa- companies currently in Iraq’s oil and gas indus-
nies were stopped behind the gates of Iraq and try as insufficient, and stated: “As we have had
could not use their talent and strength in the good success in the field of building power
industrial development of the neighbouring plants and hospitals in Iraq, it is expected that
country as it should be.” similar developments in the field of oil and gas
He described the presence of Iranian will also be realised.”

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