World IN BRIEF : IRAN : Alleged Spy for U.S. Is Executed

Iran said it executed a spy for the United States and smashed an espionage ring cooperating with the CIA. Tehran’s military prosecutor, Mohammed Niazi, said the group passed information to Washington about organizations linked to Iran’s armed forces. Niazi, quoted by Iran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency, said the executed spy, Seyyed Mohammed Ali Shahbukhari, was a national of a “neighboring country.” Niazi said the network operated during the eight-year Iran-Iraq War and that its agents continued to spy after the cease-fire in August, 1988.