DUBAI: Iran has sentenced an unnamed person to six years in jail forselling information about its nuclear program to the United States and aEuropean country, the Iranian judiciary’s news website reported on Sunday.

Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi told judiciary news website Mizanthat the convicted person had met nine times with US and European agents tohand over information “about sanctions and nuclear matters” and hadreceived unspecified sums of money in return.

“This person has been sentenced to six years imprisonment and the returnand seizure of funds,” Dolatabadi said.

In December, Dolatabadi said Iran’s Supreme Court had upheld a deathsentence against Ahmadreza Djalali, a Sweden-based Iranian academicconvicted of providing information to Israel to help it assassinate severalsenior nuclear scientists.

At least four scientists were killed between 2010 and 2012 in what Tehransaid were assassinations meant to sabotage its efforts to develop nuclearenergy.

Western powers and Israel said Iran aimed to build a nuclear bomb, whichTehran denied. – Agencies