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Alireza Akbari, a twin British-Iranian citizen and previous Iranian professional, has been sentenced to loss of life in Iran for spying for the United Kingdom, consistent with Iranian judiciary-affiliated outlet Mizan on Wednesday.
Akbari prior to now served as Iran’s deputy protection minister and was once the top of the Strategic Research Institute, in addition to a member of the army group that applied the United Nations solution that ended the Iran-Iraq conflict, consistent with Iranian pro-reform outlet Shargh Daily.
According to the allegations in Mizan, Akbari “some time ago was arrested for spying against this country. On this basis and after filing an indictment against the accused, the file was referred to court and hearings were held in the presence of the accused’s lawyer and based on the valid documents in this person’s file, he was sentenced to death for spying for the UK.”
The British executive has known as for Iran to halt the execution and unencumber Akbari. The BBC has reported Akbari was once arrested in 2019 and that he served beneath Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, a reformist who was once in place of job from 1997 to 2005.
Akbari appealed the verdict, and after reviewing the case, Iran’s Supreme Court upheld the loss of life sentence, consistent with Mizan. The outlet claims Iran’s intelligence ministry showed that Akbari was once an secret agent for the British secret intelligence carrier MI6, alleging that he amassed “important national information and provided it in a fully aware and informed manner.”
“This spy was in the process of obtaining a visa from the British Embassy by intelligence agents stationed there,” Mizan stated.
UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly known as for the execution to be halted. “Iran must halt the execution of British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari and immediately release him. This is a politically motivated act by a barbaric regime that has total disregard for human life,” he stated in a tweet.
A UK Foreign Office spokesperson instructed CNN it was once supporting Akbari’s circle of relatives “and have repeatedly raised his case with the Iranian authorities. Our priority is securing his immediate release and we have reiterated our request for urgent consular access.”
The Islamic Republic of Iran has lengthy ranked a few of the global’s best executioners.
The regime performed 314 other folks in 2021, 20% greater than the former 12 months, rights team Amnesty International stated in a record from May 2022. Many of the ones needed to do with drug-related crimes.
Last weekend, Iran performed two protesters charged with killing safety staff, inflicting a global outcry. Critics stated that the executions had been a results of hasty sham trials.
