Iran Accuses 3 of Spying for Israel and Plans to Seek Death Penalty ,will they be executed ?

Iran has broken a spy ring working for Israeli’s intelligence service, Mossad, and will seek the death penalty for three suspects in custody, Iran’s prosecutor general announced Tuesday.

The prosecutor general, Saeed Mortazavi, said that the suspects, members of Basij, Iran’s volunteer militia, were expected to get close to senior members of the Revolutionary Guard so they could “assassinate military scientists and blow up strategic military and missile facilities.” At a news conference covered by the semiofficial Fars news agency, he said they would be tried within a month and if convicted of “moharebeh,” crimes against Islam and the state, would be sentenced to death. Conviction on lesser charges could mean 10 years in prison, he said.
Mr. Mortazavi said Tuesday that the inquiry started six months earlier. He said evidence was found on the suspects’ laptops and satellite phones. “They also had advanced and sophisticated digital cameras for taking still shots and videos,” Fars quoted him as saying.

Assessing the strength of the government’s case is difficult. The Israeli government has declined to comment on it, but Prime Minister Ehud Olmert recently hinted at intelligence achievements, without elaborating. Mossad is widely considered one of the world’s most effective intelligence organizations, but as such, its activities are secret.
The leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Mohammad Ali Jafari, said Monday that its intelligence bureau had detected the spy ring.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/world/middleeast/26iran.html?ref=world