Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has criticised the five foreign secretaries that have been in office since she was taken prisoner. What does her lengthy ordeal ...

Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe received backlash claiming she wasn't grateful for her release after she criticised the government in a press conference for taking ...

"She's absolutely right that it took too long to bring her home. Does she bear no responsibility for being in a country with such a nasty regime?" David Campbell Bannerman, former MEP, said: "I do hope she's not biting the hand that saved her. While she believes it was "cruel", she told reporters that she does not want to bear a grudge and described the moment as "glorious". She went on to say that she had seen five foreign secretaries over the course of six years, adding: "That is unprecedented given the politics of the UK. The former foreign secretary, who failed to get her released, defended Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe on Twitter after she was let out of prison and returned to the UK this week after six years.

Speaking publicly for the first time since returning home, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe said the UK government knew that Tehran wanted a historic £400-million ...

"Contrary to the public statements that have been made, he's not being reunited with his family. I shouldn't have been in prison for six years," she said. there are so many other people we don't know their names who have been suffering in prison in Iran." And he certainly has not been given a furlough, as was part of the deal that was presented to us. She worked for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the news and data agency, and was arrested in Tehran on a visit to see family in 2016, accused of plotting to overthrow the regime. She described herself as "a pawn in the hands of two governments" who had been caught up in a wider dispute that had "nothing to do" with her, and said all those unfairly detained in Iran in similar circumstances should be freed.

Briton held captive in Iran for six years should not face online trolling, says Boris Johnson's office.

“She doesn’t owe us gratitude: we owe her an explanation,” he tweeted. “She’s absolutely right that it took too long to bring her home. “She has been through an unimaginable ordeal, and we are extremely pleased that she is now reunited with her family. And David Bannerman, a former Conservative MEP, said: “I do hope she’s not biting the hand that saved her. A torrent of social media abuse was levelled at her in the aftermath. Susan Hall, the leader of the Greater London authority Conservatives, also tweeted: “Errr what you really mean is that Iranians should not have unlawfully kept you as prisoner for 6 years.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe said her reunion with her husband and daughter has been "precious" and "glorious", but said her release from detention in Iran ...

National archive documents raise questions about how definitive British efforts to prevent arms transfers to Iran really were after the revolution that ...

The official British rules on arms transfers to Iran and Iraq during the war were complicated. My research shows that Iran was running a military procurement office in the heart of Westminster to supply its war machine. British government documents from 1985 note 60 to 70 arms dealers worked to broker arms deals in the building alongside over 200 oil company representatives. My research has explored the history of the Anglo-Iranian arms trading relationship and has found that London continued to be a global hub for Iran’s arms purchasing efforts even after the 1979 Iranian revolution. British tank transfers ceased and the bulk of the 1970s contract went unfulfilled. Received wisdom is that the UK failed to follow through on arms deals with Iran due to concerns over the politics and provocative actions of the new Iranian regime.