The shah abandoned the throne in 1979 and the Islamic Revolution soon installed the clerically overseen system that endures today. ADAuthorities in London and Tehran deny that Zaghari-Ratcliffe is linked to the repayment deal. A U.N. panel has described “an emerging pattern involving the arbitrary deprivation of liberty of dual nationals” in Iran, which Tehran denies. Zaghari-Ratcliffe was scooped up at the Tehran airport when trying to return to Britain with her toddler daughter in April 2016. ADADAt the time of her arrest, Zaghari-Ratcliffe worked for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the news agency.

Source: Washington Post September 09, 2020 03:33 UTC