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Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kana’ani lashed out at the UK for its double-standard policies towards human rights, and blamed Prince Harry for killing 25 people in Afghanistan during his time as an Apache helicopter pilot.
Kana’ani on Monday denounced the UK and some European countries over their reaction to Iran’s execution of dual British-Iranian citizen Alireza Akbari who had been sentenced to death over spying for the British Secret Intelligence Service.
“The UK move against Iran’s national security received Iran’s firm intelligence and judicial response,” Kana’ani wrote on Twitter, adding that the UK’s hype and support of the London government by certain European countries, which claim to be defending human rights, show that they are escaping and breaking law.
“The British regime, whose royal family member has admitted to have killed 25 innocent people and viewed them as chess pieces he was removing from the board without being ashamed, as well as those who have turned a blind eye to this war crime are not capable of advising others on human rights,” the spokesperson wrote in another tweet.
He was referring to Prince Harry, the duke of Sussex, who has confirmed in a memoir that he killed 25 people while on deployment in Afghanistan with the British Army. Harry stated he was neither proud nor ashamed of doing so. He also described eliminating the targets as like removing “chess pieces” from a board.
The comments by Kana’ani came days after Iran executed Akbari who was sentenced to death over long-running espionage for Britain’s spy apparatus MI6. The convict, who had been sentenced to death on charges of “corruption on earth” and “extensive activities against the country’s internal and external security” through espionage for the British government’s spy agency, was hanged on Saturday.
Akbari, who was arrested in 2019, had received 1,805,000 euros, 265,000 pounds, and $50,000 for espionage activities for the United Kingdom.
He was spotted by Iran’s intelligence forces when he met with a number of British intelligence officers in the UK embassy in Tehran.
Among other crimes, Akbari is said to have played a role in the assassination by Israel of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a top nuclear scientist, in 2020.
The UK in response sanctioned Iranian Prosecutor General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri. The British Foreign Ministry has also announced that London will temporarily recall its ambassador from Tehran to carry out some consultations.
