UK asked to intervene as Iran prepares to execute ex-minister

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : He decided to leave Iran travelling to Austria and then Spain before we settled on a business in the UK."
52% : Alireza Akbari had been deputy defence minister under the reformist Mohammad Khatami, the president of Iran from 1997 to 2005.
50% : He loves his country, but this is part of a political power game inside Tehran.
47% :The Foreign Office has been aware of Akbari's case for some time, but was only just asked in the last 24 hours to intervene by the family after all legal avenues in Iran were exhausted, and political lobbying did not bear fruit.
46% : He was close to Shamkhani, the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, and had been an advocate for the Iran nuclear deal that was eventually signed in 2015 between the west and Tehran.
40% : Akbari was arrested more than three years ago, and has been in Evin prison in Tehran where he met other British Iranian dual nationals.

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