From AP,
According to IRNA [the official news agency], Siadati began his alleged espionage activities in 2004 and was arrested in 2008 while planning to flee Iran.
The report also said he had confessed to providing confidential information in return for $60,000, and to receiving up to $7,000 in every meeting with Israeli handlers.
Espionage is punishable by death under Iranian law.
In 2008, Iran executed Ali Ashtari, an electronics salesman who was convicted of relaying information on Iran's nuclear program and other sensitive data to Israel's Mossad spy agency.
And in 2000, a court convicted 10 Iranian Jews of spying for Israel in a closed-door trial and sentenced them to prison terms ranging from four to 13 years. All were released before serving out their full sentences after international pressure.
From The Jerusalem Post,
He was accused of conducting espionage "under the umbrella of business services initially, after which he got in direct contact with one of the Israeli embassies in the region, after which he gradually began dispatching secret military information" to Israel, IRNA reported.
He was suspected of meeting Israeli agents in Turkey, Thailand and Holland.
He was said to have passed on numbers of Iranian military aircraft, training and operational flight information, causes of air disasters, and vital information on Revolutionary Guard air navigation systems.
Source: AP, The Jerusalem Post
Comments: Don't know if Ali Akbar Siadati was a spy but seems unfair that Iranian spies don't get hanged.
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