Fourteen people have been indicted in connection with their alleged roles in the 2020 killing of a top nuclear scientist in an attack Tehran has blamed on Israel, an Iranian state news agency said Monday.
According to the report by the Islamic Theocratic
RepublicNews Agency, the 14 were charged on a number of counts, including "corruption on earth, contribution to intelligence and espionage for the Zionist regime, collusion aimed at disrupting Iran’s security, and endangering the Islamic country’s security."
There were no details given on the identity of the 12, including their nationalities.
Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....frequently arrests, jails and executes individuals it accuses of spying for foreign nations, without offering proof.
Iran has blamed Israel for killing its top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, with a remote-controlled machine gun while he was traveling in a car outside Tehran.
Fakhrizadeh, identified by Israel as the father of Iran’s rogue nuclear weapons program, was assassinated in the sophisticated hit reportedly led by a Mossad team.