UK vows further action against Iran following execution of dual national

Britain vows more reprisals against what it says is Tehran’s “weakened and isolated regime,” after the Islamic republic executed a UK-Iranian dual national.

Following the killing of Alireza Akbari, the UK summoned Iran’s most senior diplomat and recalled its own ambassador.

But despite slapping sanctions on Iran’s prosecutor general Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, it stopped short of opposition demands to ban the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Faced with more such demands in parliament, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly says he cannot comment on future proscriptions. But he adds: “We do not limit ourselves to the steps that I have already announced.”

And Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s spokesman tells reporters: “We are reviewing further action with our international partners.”