“This was a callous and cowardly act, carried out by a barbaric regime with no respect for the human rights of their own people,” British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said after Ali Reza Akbari was hanged.
Britain expressed fury on Saturday after Iran bucked international warnings and executed a dual citizen it accused of being a spy.
Akbari was accused of working with Britain’s MI6, but thereports the think-tank founder and former defense ministry official was an ally of top Iranian security official Ali Shamkhani and that his execution could be the result of a power struggle.
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