UK Urges Iran to Halt Execution of British-Iranian Alireza Akbari

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

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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