Iranian courts have sentenced one person to death for spying for the CIA, jailed two others for 10 years for the same crime, and have imprisoned a fourth person for 10 years for spying for Britain.
The verdicts come amid spiralling tensions between Tehran and the United States since President Donald Trump last year withdrew from Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with major powers, and reimposed sanctions that have crippled Iran’s economy in order to force Tehran to renegotiate the pact.
It is not yet known if any of these sentences include the three Australians currently detained in Iran.