Next execution in Iran: The former politician Aliresa Akbari is said to have worked as an agent for foreign countries – that was the allegation. Now he was executed.
Iran has executed a former British-Iranian leader on charges of espionage. As the justice portal Misan announced, Aliresa Akbari was killed.
Iran had sentenced him to death in a espionage trial for leaking secrets. Akbari, his wife and brother had always vehemently denied the allegations.
According to media reports, Akbari was arrested in 2019. He was Deputy Minister of Defense in Iran from 1997 to 2002. The minister at the time was Ali Shamchani, who is now Secretary of the Security Council, the country’s most important decision-making body. Between 2014 and 2015, Akbari accompanied the Iran delegation to the nuclear negotiations in Vienna as a military advisor. According to the Iranian security authorities, he is said to have passed on secret information to the British secret service in both functions.
“Cruel and cowardly act of a barbaric regime”
Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he was “appalled” by the execution. “This was a cruel and cowardly act by a barbaric regime that has no respect for the human rights of its own people. My thoughts are with Aliresa’s friends and family,” Sunak wrote on Twitter.
According to observers, the case is about an internal power struggle. The real goal of the hardliners around President Ebrahim Raisi is to discredit Shamkhani, they say. He is said to have criticized the police violence against the demonstrators and tried to mediate.
It is unclear how Akbari, as deputy defense secretary and military adviser to the Security Council, was able to obtain British citizenship in the first place. Dual nationals are not allowed to hold top political offices in Iran.
Source: Stern
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