The execution of a British-Iranian dual national by Iran's "barbaric regime" was a "callous and cowardly act", Rishi Sunak has said.
Early this morning, the death of Alireza Akbari was confirmed by the state-run Iranian Students' News Agency.
But a statement from the Iranian Students’ News Agency less than a day later said: “The sentence of Alireza Akbari, the son of Ali with dual Iranian-British citizenship, who was sentenced to death on charges of corruption in the land and widespread action against the country’s internal and external security through espionage for the intelligence apparatus of the British government, was executed.”
