Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is an entirely innocent woman who has been held on trumped-up charges of espionage in Iranian jails since 2016. Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe should be released and reunited with her family. The Iranian government did not need any encouragement to seize and jail Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe but Mr Johnson anyway gave them what he could. Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested at the airport at the end of a family trip to take her then 22-month-old daughter to visit her grandparents. For nearly 40 years, British governments have refused to hand over the money on grounds that look wholly specious.

Source: The Guardian June 28, 2019 17:25 UTC