Mizan News, an agency affiliated with Iran's judiciary, reported that a former defence minister named Ali Reza Akbari has been executed.
Despite international pressure not to carry out the death sentence, Iran claimed on Saturday that it had executed a former senior officer in the defence ministry who was also a dual citizen of Iran and the United Kingdom.
As the Islamic Republic was being rocked by widespread anti-government rallies, the execution heightened tensions with the West.
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