Reuters - An Iranian citizen who provided information to U.S. and Israeli intelligence services on the whereabouts of Iran�s slain Revolutionary Guards commander Qassem Soleimani will be executed soon, Iran�s judiciary said on Tuesday.

On Jan. 3, a U.S. drone strike in Iraq killed� General Soleimani, leader of the Revolutionary Guards� Quds Force. Washington blamed General Soleimani for masterminding attacks by Iran-aligned militias on U.S. forces in the region.

�Mahmoud Mousavi-Majd, one of the spies for CIA and Mossad, has been sentenced to death. He gave the whereabouts of martyr Soleimani to our enemies,� judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said in a televised news conference.

Officials have not said whether Mousavi-Majd�s case is linked to Iran�s announcement last summer that it had captured 17 spies working for the CIA, some of whom it said were sentenced to death.

General Soleimani�s killing led to a peak in confrontation between Iran and the United States. Iran retaliated with a rocket attack on an Iraqi air base where U.S. forces were stationed. Hours later, Iranian forces on high alert mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian passenger airliner taking off from Tehran.

Writing by Parisa Hafezi; Editing by William Maclean and Peter Graff