Iran executed a former deputy defense minister in January. Alirez Akbari worked for British intelligence for a decade and passed on data on nuclear programs.
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This is discussed in the NYT investigation.
Akbari led a double life for a long time. At home, he portrayed a religious fanatic, was a senior military commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and deputy minister of defense.
He subsequently moved to London and went into private business, but never lost the confidence of the Iranian leaders. According to them, the man began to transfer classified information to Britain in 2004.
This is how the secret services learned about Fordow, a uranium enrichment facility in an underground military complex. It was he who was part of the creation of a nuclear bomb.
Four years ago, Russian intelligence told the Iranian authorities that Akbari had revealed the existence of yet another top-secret Iranian nuclear program.
Then he was accused of disclosing the names of 100 people who worked in this project. Among them is Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a chief nuclear researcher who was killed by Israeli agents in 2020.
In January 2023, Iran announced that Akbari was a spy and executed him – this happened three years after his arrest. Britain has never publicly acknowledged that Akbari, who became a British citizen in 2012, worked for them.
Akbari and his family were promised UK residency and received an estimated £2m.
The satellite image shows the same Iranian Ford.
Source: Racurs
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