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UK urges Iran to halt execution of British-Iranian man accused of spying for MI6

Jan 12, 2023 View Original Article
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    -10% Center

  • Reliability

    40% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

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% : Mr Cleverly tweeted: "Iran must halt the execution of British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari and immediately release him.
34% :Mr Akbari is an Iranian former deputy defence minister who was arrested in 2019 and accused of espionage for MI6 related to past nuclear talks between Iran and western nations, according to reports.
29% : The UK has condemned the planned execution of a British-Iranian man accused of spying by Iran.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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