*He Was A Top ICT Employee
*Israel Allegedly Paid Him In Foreign Currency For Services Rendered
Mahdi Farid, who had been accused of providing sensitive national information to the Israeli secret service Mossad, was hanged yesterday after judicial proceedings were completed and the final verdict was confirmed by Iran’s Supreme Court.
According to the pro-Iranian security Tasnim News Agency, which ran the report, Farid had served as the head of the civil defense committee management section of “a sensitive organization in Iran.”
In return for his services, Farid was said to have received various amounts of foreign currency through different channels as payment for his activities during the period of cooperation.
He was accused of establishing contact with Mossad through cyberspace and was reportedly “quickly approved by a Mossad officer due to his level of access.”
The news medium recalled that during the investigation process, the convict explicitly explained the stages of his communication with the Mossad service. He also acknowledged in court that he had been aware from the outset of the identity of those he was communicating with.
Tasnim further wrote: “In these exchanges, the Mossad officer clearly outlined requests for obtaining information from the organization, which Farid agreed to provide.
“Based on Farid’s confessions, the information he attempted to transfer included organizational access details, structural charts, internal building layouts, security conditions, details of defense-related facilities, and personnel identity data stored in the organization’s automation systems.
“A key aspect of Farid’s cooperation involved receiving specialized training to infiltrate and compromise the organization’s networks and servers.
“In technical operations, he reportedly attempted twice—under Mossad guidance—to infect the internal network of the organization’s civil defense department: first by using a hard drive supplied by the Israeli service to extract data, and second by attempting to install software on the organization’s server and deploy a trojan horse malware via a flash drive provided by the officer.”
*PHOTO CAPTION: Farid.
