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Jalal Haji Zawar was a former
Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
ian Defence Ministry contractor. He was executed for spying for the
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Controversy

Zawar was condemned by Tehran’s military court after several meetings and was sentenced to death. He was executed at the Rajayi Shahr
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in
Karaj Karaj ( fa, کرج, ) is the capital of Alborz Province, Iran, and effectively a satellite city of Tehran. Although the county hosts a population around 1.97 million, as recorded in the 2016 census, most of the county is rugged mountain. The urb ...
, west of Iran's capital,
Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...
. Zawar's employment was terminated in 2010. He had been detained on account of espionage against the Ministry of Defense's intelligence unit. During the investigation, detectives found espionage tools in his home. Zawar confessed to his crime during his court meeting and claimed to have received money from the CIA in exchange for spying and transferring data and classified information from the Iranian military system to the CIA.


Personal life

Zawar's ex-wife was convicted of "involvement in
espionage Espionage, spying, or intelligence gathering is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information (intelligence) from non-disclosed sources or divulging of the same without the permission of the holder of the information for a tangib ...
" and was sentenced to 15-years in
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.


See also

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Military intelligence Military intelligence is a military discipline that uses information collection and analysis approaches to provide guidance and direction to assist commanders in their decisions. This aim is achieved by providing an assessment of data from a ...
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Espionage Espionage, spying, or intelligence gathering is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information (intelligence) from non-disclosed sources or divulging of the same without the permission of the holder of the information for a tangib ...
* Murtaja Qureiris * Iran's 2018 prisoner swap proposal to the United States *
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