UK Urges Iran to Halt Execution of British-Iranian Alireza Akbari
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53% : "He was one of the most important agents of the British intelligence service in Iran who had access to some very sensitive centres in the country," Iran's Intelligence Ministry said.50% :Tehran has detained a number of dual and foreign nationals in recent years, including British-Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was held in 2016 and released last year.
37% : The UK government has condemned the planned execution of a British-Iranian dual national by Iran and has appealed for it not to go ahead.
37% : Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said on Twitter on Wednesday: "Iran must halt the execution of British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari and immediately release him.
37% : Fakhrizadeh, killed in an attack outside Tehran in 2020, was widely seen by Western intelligence as the mastermind of clandestine Iranian efforts to develop nuclear weapons.
36% : She added that the UK has "a weak record when it comes to lobbying for the release of arbitrarily jailed Britons in Iran.""Ministers must be able to show they have a clear plan for ensuring the threat of execution is lifted from Alireza and that allegations he was tortured and forced to falsely confess are fully investigated."
33% :Akbari, a former deputy defence minister of Iran, was arrested in 2019 and accused of espionage for British intelligence service MI6, a charge he denied.
31% :Alicia Kearns, the Conservative chairwoman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the House of Commons, accused the regime in Tehran of reacting because it felt "cornered" as a result of international sanctions and the continuing wave of anti-government protests.
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