In a BBC Persian audio recording, Akbari, a former Iranian deputy defense minister, said he had confessed to crimes he had not committed while tortured in detention. theSun theSundaily Scientist nuclear death Iran AlirezaAkbari WorldNews
Alireza Akbari, Iran's former deputy defence minister, speaks during an interview with Khabaronline in Tehran, Iran, in this undated picture obtained on January 12, 2023. - REUTERSPIX: Iranian state media published a video on Thursday which they said showed that British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari, who is in detention and sentenced to death for spying, played a role in the 2020 assassination of the country’s top nuclear scientist.
Reuters could not immediately establish the authenticity of the video and audio or when or where they were recorded. Britain has also been critical of the Islamic Republic’s violent crackdown on anti-government protests sparked by the death in custody of a young Iranian-Kurdish woman in SeptemberFakhrizadeh was widely seen by Western intelligence as the mastermind of clandestine Iranian efforts to develop nuclear weapons. Tehran denied that.
“I was accused of obtaining top secret information from Shamkhani in exchange for a bottle of perfume and a shirt during Rouhani’s presidency,“ Akbari said in the audio message.
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