Alireza Akbari’s wife, Maryam, said an official had asked her to come to his prison in Tehran for a final meeting.
He has also been transferred to solitary confinement, which is seen as a sign that an execution is imminent.
The ex-deputy Iranian defence minister was arrested in 2019 and convicted of spying for the United Kingdom, which he denied.
He says that he was living abroad a few years ago when he was invited to visit Iran at the request of a top Iranian diplomat who was involved in nuclear talks with world powers.
Once there, he adds, he was accused of obtaining top secret intelligence from the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, in exchange for a bottle of perfume and a shirt.
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