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Iranian-Swedish academic Ahmadreza Djalali, who has been sentenced death, is shown during a court appearance.
Iranian-Swedish academic Ahmadreza Djalali, who has been sentenced death, is shown during a court appearance.
In the December 17 broadcast, Ahmadreza Djalali, a researcher at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute, admits to supplying information to a foreign intelligence service about Iranian nuclear scientists who were later assassinated.
Djalali, 46, was arrested in April 2016 and later convicted of espionage. He previously has denied the charges.
In the 17-minute broadcast, Djalali said a man he identified as "Thomas" had approached him with a job offer while he was doing research in an unnamed European country.
He said the man later recruited him to that country's foreign intelligence service, adding that the man had promised he would receive citizenship in the country.
On December 12, Amnesty International, the London-based rights watchdog, said the verdict stated that Djalali had worked with the Israeli government.
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