Another view might be: what else is Ratcliffe supposed to do, when the right to protest is all he has left? Ratcliffe has joined his wife on a hunger strike, demanding, among other things, her immediate release. There are also reports that some diplomatic protection for the British embassy in Tehran has been removed in reprisal for the protest. However inconvenient the embassy is finding the situation, depicting Ratcliffe as some kind of irresponsible, capricious protester would be unfair. Ratcliffe and Zaghari-Ratcliffe have diligently used all the correct channels, but this doesn’t seem to have got them very far.

Source: The Guardian June 22, 2019 15:00 UTC