Iran media claims detained British-Iranian linked to death of nuclear scientist

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : In his audio message, Akbari said he had returned to Tehran following an invitation by a senior Iranian diplomat involved in Tehran's nuclear talks with world powers.
49% : Akbari was a close ally of Ali Shamkhani, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council who served as Defence Minister from 1997 to 2005, when Akbari was his deputy.
46% : Reuters could not immediately verify if Akbari had moved to Britain in 2008, or when he returned to Iran.
39% : Ties between London and Tehran have deteriorated in recent months as efforts have stalled to revive Iran's 2015 nuclear pact, to which Britain is one of the parties.
36% : Tehran denied that.
34% : In the video, Akbari 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.
33% : Iranian state media reported on Wednesday that Iran had sentenced Akbari to death on charges of spying for Britain.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.