Former Iranian Deputy Defense Minister General Ali Reza Akbari, who served in this post under President Mohammad Khatami from 1995 to 2005, was sentenced to death for spying for Britain. It has been reported Al Arabia.
According to the publication, Akbari held British citizenship and appealed the verdict after being arrested and charged between 2019 and 2020, but Iran’s Supreme Court dismissed the appeal.
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry said in a statement, describing Akbari as “one of MI6’s most important agents”, saying he provided valuable information about Iran to British intelligence.
According to the Ministry of Information of the Republic published in the Iranian news agency IRNAAkbari was arrested after a long and multi-level counterintelligence operation involving technical means and disinformation transmission.
However, the conditions of his arrest by the Iranian special services were not disclosed. BBCAkbari himself said he was tortured and forced to confess on camera to crimes he didn’t commit.
Previously reportedIt has been revealed that a network consisting of “agents sent to the country by the spy organization of the Zionist regime to carry out terrorist operations” has emerged in Iran.
According to the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran, members of this network “in contact with Mossad spy-terrorist organization agents through one of the neighboring countries and entering the country from Kurdistan” engaged in “unprecedented sabotage and aggression using the latest operational and communication equipment and the most powerful explosives”. terrorist operations.
Members of the group have previously identified targets for terrorist attacks in “particularly sensitive areas”, but have been “trapped and their weapons, explosives, technical equipment and communications equipment” found and confiscated.