Doubts have been raised over Britain’s support for the Iran nuclear deal after the execution of a British-Iranian dual citizen.
Alireza Akbari, a former deputy defence minister of Iran, was hanged on Saturday after the regime convicted him of spying for MI6, a charge he denied.
Yesterday Andy Slaughter, Akbari’s former MP, said he did not think the Foreign Office had done enough to try to save him. The killing, believed by the Foreign Office to be the first time that a dual citizen has been executed by Iran since the 1980s, provoked condemnation around the world.
James Cleverly, the foreign secretary, has announced measures in response, including sanctions against Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, Iran’s prosecutor-general, and summoning Seyed Mehdi Hosseini Matin, the chargé d’affaires
