DUBAI: Iran has executed British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari, the judiciary's Mizan news agency reported on Saturday (Jan 14), after sentencing him to death on charges of spying for Britain. British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said on Friday that Iran must not follow through with the execution of
DUBAI: Iran has executed British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari, the judiciary's Mizan news agency reported on Saturday , after sentencing him to death on charges of spying for Britain.
Britain had described the death sentence as politically motivated and called for his immediate release. Iranian state media broadcast a video on Thursday that they said showed that Akbari played a role in the 2020 assassination of Iran's top nuclear scientist,outside Tehran which authorities blamed at the time on Israel.
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