Iran has sentenced to death an Iranian found guilty of spying for Israel, the Fars news agency has reported.

 
The sentence against Ali Ashtari, 45, who was arrested one and a half years ago, was handed down by an Iranian revolutionary court on Monday.

Ashtari was accused of involvement in a plot, run by the Israeli secret services, to intercept the communications of Iranian officials working in the military and its contested nuclear programme.

Another official quoted on Iran's state TV website said Ashtari "relayed sensitive information on military, defence and research centres" to Israel's Mossad spy agency.

Al-Jazeera