Kuwait Condemns 3 to death in Iran Spy Ring

A court in Kuwait on Tuesday condemned to death two Iranians and a Kuwaiti national for belonging to an Iranian spy ring, a judiciary source told Agence France Presse.

A Syrian and a stateless Arab were handed life terms at the end of the espionage trial, while an Iranian man and the only woman defendant -- daughter of one of the two Iranians on death row -- were acquitted, he said.

The three men condemned to death and the Syrian all were serving in the Kuwaiti army at the time of their arrest in May 2010, while the stateless Arab was an ex-soldier.

The defendants were accused of spying for Iran and of passing on information on the Kuwaiti and US military in the Gulf emirate to the Islamic republic's Revolutionary Guards, an accusation denied by Iran.