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In this June, 28, 2008 file photo, Ali Ashtari, an electronic salesman, seen, in a court room at Revolutionary Court, in Tehran, Iran. Iran executed a man convicted of spying for Israel, a judiciary spokesman said Saturday. Ali Reza Jamshidi told The...