Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

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Chris_Boro

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Poor woman, heart goes out to her and her family. Now being used as a political football over a £400 million UK dept to Iran.

If there is one person that should be working night and day to get her freed, its Boris Johnson, who's world beating loose tongue and incompetence as foreign secretary gave Iran the excuse to imprison her in the first place! 🤬
 
My secret hope had been that she was released prior to the last election and then stood for Parliament in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency, unseating the giant bellend who got her locked up in the first place.

Sadly, he won't bother standing ever again. Perhaps she can launch a civil action against him of some sort.
 
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Chris_Boro said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1321492669701541889

Poor woman, heart goes out to her and her family. Now being used as a political football over a £400 million UK dept to Iran.

If there is one person that should be working night and day to get her freed, its Boris Johnson, who's world beating loose tongue and incompetence as foreign secretary gave Iran the excuse to imprison her in the first place! 🤬
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Pay the money we owe for a start.

Can't believe what she and her family are going through.
 
Who is judging and where is the court case to decide on the 400million we owe them. It seems because that case was delayed they have decided to put her back in prison.
 
FatCat said:
Who is judging and where is the court case to decide on the 400million we owe them. It seems because that case was delayed they have decided to put her back in prison.
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I don't think there's an issue with the £400m we owe. The problem is not being able to pay them due to (US) sanctions on money transfers.
 
Why don't we just send the SAS in to get her back. What exactly are Iran going to do about that? 🤣
 
bear66 said:
I don't think there's an issue with the £400m we owe. The problem is not being able to pay them due to (US) sanctions on money transfers.
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There are times I wish we were not so close to America so we did not feel so politically beholden. This is one of them. I am sure there are ways and means of paying our debt. This poor woman needs reuniting with her brilliant husband and loving daughter.
 
For all of this goverment's posturing on how great Great Britain is, national pride etc it seems strange it seems to quite meekly accept one of its own citizen's being detained illegally for years on end.

I'm with Randy, break her out. F em.

Willing to bet if it was a member of the government or one of their family in this situation it'd be handled very differently.
 
TheBoroBuzzard said:
I thought the same when she was released from prison a few weeks back and on house arrest due to COVID-19. Send the big boys in and get her the hell out of there.
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Unfortunatey there are other foreign nationals in the same position and the liklihood is Iran would take severe retribution.
 
This incident highlights exactly why Johnson should be nowhere near the position of Prime Minister in this country, his actions have led to a British citizen having further charges placed against her extending her time in prison on evidence that seem spurious at best, why he said what he did remains a mystery but it’s either gross incompetence by a Foreign Secretary or it was a deliberate act to sabotage her campaign for freedom which goes against what other Government officials were saying, either way it doesn’t show Johnson in a favourable light.
 
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I agree that Johnson hasn’t helped matters but given the fact the charges are just bogus do you not think Iran would have found some way some other excuse to detain her anyway. When one side is not playing by the rules what one person said or didn’t say is not that material.

I hadn’t realised it was sanctions that was behind the salute not being solved. That makes it difficult!!!

I also thought about the SAS approach but I just think the Iranians would just go after her family who live there so would not give the best outcome.
 
Sending in the SAS would only lead to retributions to her wider family or others who are detained.

This who situation is due to a failure of negotiations, seems the government would rather let her rot and hide behind US sanctions than put in any concerted effort to get her released.
 
Has it occurred to anyone that she may indeed be a spy.
We do have them
Doesn’t justify the treatment but may indicate why we have been less than enthusiastic about trying to get her back to the family
 
You may not be aware of this as it is never mentioned in reports but she is not entitled to diplomatic help from the UK government.

Before anyone jumps on me I'm not saying we shouldn't be doing everything to get her out just pointing out the rules.

Dual citizenship
 
1finny said:
Has it occurred to anyone that she may indeed be a spy.
We do have them
Doesn’t justify the treatment but may indicate why we have been less than enthusiastic about trying to get her back to the family
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That’s definitely crossed my mind.
 
FatCat said:
I agree that Johnson hasn’t helped matters but given the fact the charges are just bogus do you not think Iran would have found some way some other excuse to detain her anyway. When one side is not playing by the rules what one person said or didn’t say is not that material.

I hadn’t realised it was sanctions that was behind the salute not being solved. That makes it difficult!!!

I also thought about the SAS approach but I just think the Iranians would just go after her family who live there so would not give the best outcome.
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They might well of but to say he didn’t help matters is a massive understatement, he went against everything everybody else was saying and said she was doing the very thing the Iranian’s had accused her of this is despite the existence Foreign Office briefings saying that he should maintain the official line that she was on holiday visiting family, it’s a really bizarre situation that someone you approach for help and says will help you then about turns and stabs you in the back, it’s difficult to understand his motivation and his delay to apologise and retract his statement if he was supposedly working in the best interests of the British Government and British citizens.

If she was a spy, who was she working for ? Obviously not the U.K. government as they hung her out to dry, or one of our allies as they’d obviously back channel pressure on us to intervene and help, on Bosco’s point whilst it’s true they had no obligation to get involved they chose to, which again begs the question why if the intention was to undermine her credibility?
 
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