Page 39 - Leo Docherty News Today

YEREVAN, JANUARY 18, ARMENPRESS. On January 18, Armenian FM Ararat Mirzoyan had a telephone conversation with the Minister of State for Europe of the United Kingdom Leo Docherty.

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Leo Docherty told MPs that half of the 190 Afghan contractors had been given clearance to come to the UK. The Foreign Office were forced to correct the record as this was not the case.

DUBAI: Iranian state media published a video on Thursday that they said showed British-Iranian national Alireza...

Iran contends video shows that Alireza Akbari played role in 2020 assassination of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh

Iranian state media published a video on Thursday that they said showed British Iranian national Alireza Akbari, who is facing the death penalty for spying, played a role in the 2020 assassination of Iran's top nuclear scientist. The video was aired a day after state media said a death sentence had been given to Akbari,…

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LONDON: British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said on Friday that Iran must not follow through with threatening to execute British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari. “The Iranian regime should be in no doubt. We are watching the case of Alireza Akbari closely,” he said in a tweet. Cleverly on Wednesday called for immediate release of Akbari who has been sentenced to death by

In the video of Akbari published by state media, he did not confess to involvement in the assassination of scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, killed in a 2020 attack outside Tehran, but said a British agent had asked for information about him. In a separate recording broadcast by BBC Persian on Wednesday, Akbari said he had confessed to crimes he had not committed after extensive torture.

Contractors forced to move between safe houses given green light to leave but others remain in the country