“She expressed anger at the Guards, but also at the foreign secretary, that it had become such a shambles,” Ratcliffe said. Despite his wife’s frustration at these events, Ratcliffe added that he had held a positive phone conversation with Johnson in which the foreign secretary said he was “deeply sorry for Nazanin’s suffering”. He went on: “Just as Tulip Siddiq is Nazanin’s member of parliament, and has pushed the government, Boris Johnson is Nazanin’s foreign secretary, her government’s voice vis-a-vis Iran. Defending the foreign secretary on BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show, Gove was asked what he thought Zaghari-Ratcliffe was doing in Iran when she was arrested. “Boris Johnson’s cavalier approach to international diplomacy is compounded this morning by Michael Gove claiming he has no idea what Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was doing in Iran.

Source: The Guardian November 12, 2017 19:54 UTC