Iran executed Erfan Shakourzadeh, a 29-year-old aerospace engineer who graduated first in his class and chose to stay in his country when hundreds of thousands of educated young Iranians were leaving, at dawn on Monday, at Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, without notifying his family or granting him a final visit.
Shakourzadeh was hanged on charges of spying for the CIA and Israel's Mossad intelligence service, according to Iran's judiciary-linked Mizan News Agency. Human rights groups said his confession was extracted through eight and a half months of torture and solitary confinement.
