Iran Confirms Upholding Death Sentence for Academic Over Spying

A photo taken on Feb. 13, 2017 shows a flyer during a protest outside the Iranian embassy in Brussels for Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian academic detained in Tehran for nearly a year and reportedly sentenced to death for espionage. Djalali is an Iranian researcher working for the CRIMEDIM Disaster and Emergency Medicine program. He was arrested on April 25, 2016 when in the Iranian capital for a conference, according to Italian media. DIRK WAEM/AFP/Getty Images

DUBAI–Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence against a Sweden-based Iranian academic who it convicted of spying for Israel, the Tehran prosecutor was quoted as saying on Monday, confirming reports by Amnesty International and his family.

Ahmadreza Djalali, a medical doctor and researcher in disaster relief, was accused by the Iranian authorities of providing information to Israel to help it assassinate several senior nuclear scientists.