This Saturday, Iran reported the hanging of the British-Iranian Alireza Akbari, who was a former senior Defense official in that country.
Three days ago, his death sentence had been announced after being found guilty of spying for the UK intelligence services, which warned that “this barbaric act will not go unchallenged”.
Akbari, 61, was convicted of “corruption on Earth and for endangering the country’s internal and external security by passing intelligence information” to the United Kingdom, the official Iranian judicial information agency Mizan Online reported.
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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called the execution “ruthless and cowardly.”
Shortly after, the British Executive stated that it had ordered sanctions against Iran’s Attorney General, Mohammar Jafar Montazeri.
Iran’s government summoned the British ambassador to Tehran to protest what it described as “unconventional interventions”, denouncing London’s “malicious support” of a “spy”.
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The United States declared itself “appalled” by the execution.
“Arbitrary arrests, forced confessions and politically motivated executions are totally unacceptable and must stop,” a State Department spokesman said in Washington.
Akbari was detained between March 2019 and March 2020, according to the Irna agency. The Mizan agency claimed that he had received payments of more than two million dollars for his services. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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