Double life of executed spy reveals Iran's secret nuclear program.

Ali Reza Akbari, a dual Iranian-British national and former deputy minister of defense, was executed in Iran in January for espionage. According to a New York Times report, Akbari had been leaking Iranian nuclear secrets to the UK since 2004, and the UK passed on information from him to Israel about Iran's nuclear activities at the Fordo site and their ties to the country's efforts to produce nuclear weapons. Akbari was reportedly discovered as the source of the leak by Russian intelligence officials in 2019. He also turned over the names of around 100 senior Iranian officials to British authorities, including that of Iran's top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was killed in November 2020 in an attack that Tehran blames on Israel.