UK and EU expected to coordinate response to execution of British-Iranian accused of spying
Alireza Akbari, the British-Iranian dual national and former Iranian deputy defence minister, who has been executed in Tehran.Alireza Akbari, the British-Iranian dual national and former Iranian deputy defence minister, who has been executed in Tehran.Last modified on Sat 14 Jan 2023 21.45 GMT
Akbari leaves behind two daughters and a wife who lives in the UK. They had been given reason to hope for a last-minute reprieve, but his wife read of his execution on the Iranian state judicial news agency before dawn on Saturday morning. The British calculation now will be whether to take further steps that risk the door being closed indefinitely on further talks over the stalled nuclear deal, or whether the danger of nuclear weapons proliferation in the Middle East is regarded as too great to antagonise the regime.with UN weapons inspectors denied access to Iran’s key sites.
But he added this appeared to be a policy position rather than a legal view on the interpretation of the Act, so giving UK ministers some flexibility to proscribe the IRGC if they wanted.
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