Reuters - A man has been sentenced to death in Iran for spying for the CIA and attempting to pass on information about the Islamic Republic�s nuclear program, Iran�s judiciary spokesman said on Tuesday, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.

�Amir Rahimpour who was a CIA spy and got big pay and tried to present part of Iran�s nuclear information to the American service had been tried and sentenced to death and recently the supreme court upheld his sentence and you will see it carried out soon,� Gholamhossein Esmaili said, according to Fars.

Two people working for a charity were sentenced to jail on similar charges, Esmaili said.

Reporting by Babak Dehghanpisheh; Editing by Alison Williams