Iran sentences U.S. citizen to death for espionage

Iranian Revolutionary Court 15 sentenced U.S. citizen of Iranian origin Amir Reza Hekmati accused of spying and attempting to accuse Iran of terrorism to death, Trend reported.
Amir Mirzaei Hekmati has been charged with attempting to infiltrate Iran's intelligence apparatus to implicate the Islamic Republic in sponsoring terrorism.
His indictment papers said Hekmati had been hired by the CIA in May 2009 to carry out espionage missions in Iran.
The 28-year-old Hekmati stood in the dock and confessed to having been deceived by the CIA to spy on Iran.
He explained that his mission was to offer Iran's intelligence agents valid data in return for money and to confirm payment by obtaining receipts that could later be used by US intelligence officials to implicate the Islamic Republic in terrorist activities.