British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak condemned the decision of the Iranian authorities to execute the former deputy defense minister Akbari. He had British citizenship, the Iranian authorities accused him of espionage in favor of Mi6.
“I am shocked by the execution of the British-Iranian citizen Akbari Alires in Iran. It was a heartless and cowardly act committed by a barbaric regime without respect for human rights of his people,” Sunak wrote on Twitter
Akbari Alice held the post of deputy minister in 2000-2008. He was arrested in 2019. He said that he was tortured for ten months and forced him to admit on the camera to admit crimes that he did not commit. James Cleverly, the sentence, called the verdict “politically motivated.”