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London: The execution of Iran Akbari is a barbaric act and will not go unanswered. On Saturday, Britain condemned Iran's execution of the former Iranian Defense Ministry official, Alireza Akbari , an Iranian-British man accused of spying for British intelligence, stressing that it "will not pass without a response." Amnesty International said that Akbari's execution in Iran is a heinous attack on the right to freedom. life. British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said, "This barbaric act deserves to be condemned in the strongest possible terms. It will not go unanswered." Advertising material For his part, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak described Akbari's execution as "horrific," considering it "a cruel and cowardly act carried out by a barbaric regime that does not respect the human rights of its people." On Saturday, the Iranian judiciary carried out the death sentence against Ali Reza Akbari, three days after it was revealed that he had been convicted of espionage for the United Kingdom, of which he holds citizenship. Alireza Akbari The next day, Iranian official media published details about Akbari, noting that he had previously held assignments in the Ministry of Defense and the Supreme National Security Council. According to the "Mizan" agency affiliated with the judiciary, the death sentence against Akbari was carried out by hanging after he was convicted of "corruption on earth and harming the country's internal and external security by transmitting intelligence information." Alireza Akbari is a dual British-Iranian citizen and a former senior employee of the Iranian Ministry of Defence. He was an advisor or assistant to Ali Shamkhani, Minister of Defense in two terms of Mohammad Khatami's government (1997-2005) and during the years 2005 to 2007, when Ali Larijani led the nuclear negotiations. He cooperated With him is the team headed by Jawad and Eid. After leaving Iran and traveling to Austria, Spain, and eventually to Britain, he started his economic activity there, lived more than a decade in Britain, and obtained dual citizenship. He was arrested in 2019 on charges of spying on important information. He was tried before Judge Salawati in Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court, and was sentenced to death. After rejecting the verdict, he appealed the verdict, and the case was reconsidered in the Supreme Court, which upheld the original verdict and the death sentence against Ali Reza Akbari.
