Iranian state media published a video in which British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari, sentenced to death for spying, said he had a role in the 2020 assassination of the country's top nuclear scientist.
The coffin of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh is pictured during a funeral ceremony in Tehran, Iran November 30, 2020. Iranian Defense Ministry/ WANA /Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
In a separate audio recording broadcast by BBC Persian on Wednesday, Akbari said he was tortured in detention over months to confess to crimes he had not committed. "They wanted to know about high-ranking officials depending on the major developments ... for example he asked me whether Fakhrizadeh could be involved in such and such projects and I said why not," Akbari said in one of the video clips.
"I was interrogated and tortured for over 3,500 hours in 10 months. All of that were recorded on camera ...By using the force of gun and making death threats they made me confess to false and baseless claims," Akbari said in the audio message.
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