UK 'reviewing support for Iran nuclear deal' after execution of Alireza Akbari

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : The Daily Telegraph now reports that the UK is now reconsidering its support for the Obama-era nuclear agreement, which had eased sanctions on Tehran in exchanging for it halting its nuclear programme.
41% : Foreign secretary James Cleverly, who has also summoned Iran's charge d'affaires, said the sanctions underlined the UK's disgust at the execution, adding that prosecutor general Mohammad Jafar Montazeri was "at the heart of Iran's use of the death penalty".
38% :Alicia Kearns, chair of parliament's foreign affairs select committee, called for the UK to change its stance and come down tougher on Iran, "especially to make us safer in the UK by shutting down incubators of Iranian hostilities in London and beyond".

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