Richard Ratcliffe, left, described his meeting with the foreign secretary as “positive and constructive” STEFAN ROUSSEAU/ PABoris Johnson has promised to leave “no stone unturned” to free a British mother jailed in Iran but expressed reservations about granting her diplomatic protection, which her family hope would quicken her release. The foreign secretary held his first meeting with Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 38, who was detained last April on espionage charges. The British-Iranian charity administrator was on holiday in Tehran when she was arrested and sentenced to five years in jail. Mr Ratcliffe described the discussion yesterday as “positive and constructive”. Escalating the matter to diplomatic protection would move his wife’s case into the sphere of a conflict between the UK and Iran and Mr Ratcliffe said: “The foreign secretary expressed reservations and said there were questions that would…

Source: The Times November 16, 2017 00:06 UTC