Prince Harry has been accused by Iran of war crimes after coming out and claiming he killed 25 Afghans when serving.

The royal included the shocking figure in his newly released book Spare in which he revealed that he killed 25 Taliban fighters while serving for the British Army in Afghanistan.

In his book, Prince Harry wrote that he thought of the people he killed as “chess pieces”.

This in turn has since seen the Iranian regime slamming the royal for his words amid tensions with the UK government over the execution of a British national by Tehran.

“The British regime, whose Royal Family member sees the killing of 25 innocent people as removal of chess pieces and has no regrets over the issue, and those who turn a blind eye to this war crime, are in no position to preach others on human rights,” Iran’s foreign ministry tweeted.

Dual Iranian-British citizen Ali Reza Akbari, a former senior defence ministry official, was executed by the regime for spying.

His death has been condemned by UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who called the act “cowardly”.

“This was a callous and cowardly act, carried out by a barbaric regime with no respect for the human rights of their own people,” he said.

There are now fears that Prince Harry has put himself in danger after revealing his killings after serving in the British Army for 10 years during two tours of Afghanistan, one from 2007 to 2008 and the other from 2012 to 2013.

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