Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

[chrissa1]

https://news.sky.com/story/nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe-and-anoosheh-ashouri-iran-detainees-heading-to-airport-before-leaving-country-lawyer-says-12566669

[bednobs]

I think everyone is partly right.
It is encouraging news.
I think on the face of it, the progress is likely to do with the debt being paid, which is more than likely to do with a larger negotiation about fuel.
It seems very likely to me she was doing something to do with journalism and also likely that Mr Johnson made a mistake by saying so.
I am neither an apologist nor a basher.

[Peter Pedant]

keep it up Grom grom
when you stop it is like ceasing to head bang

even Borisek ( Boriska ) admitted he had whoopsied

we sociologists usually point out that arrest is not the guilt finding act in most legal systems ( was during the 1794 terror)(*)

(*) please please someone way - "what de 1794 terror den?"

[naomi24]

Oh God! PP is a sociologist now!

[youngmafbog]

I dont think anyone knows the real reasons here. Could be anything, and neither side are going to tell us.

Good news is she has now actually left Tehran.

Let this be a lesson to others, if you are dual national travel on your British Passport.

[youngmafbog]

//If we owed them this money , why didn't we just pay up and she would have been released from her incarceration ages ago ?//

If only life was that simple!

[youngmafbog]

Walter Mitty Naomi

[ladybirder]

She is on the jet that has just departed Tehran airport.

[naomi24]

^Or better still - don't go to places run by nutty regimes!

[naomi24]

YMB, 12.43. At the very least that's putting it kindly!

[Gromit]

Presumably she will be sought after for an interview from the Daily Mail and ITV et al. She will be asked to comment on the former Goreign Secretary’s role.
Boris must be quaking in his Peppa aping slippers.

[youngmafbog]

Well as we dont know the facts I'd say we shall have to wait and see on that Gromit.

I doubt he will be quaking in his boots, she will be yesterdays news in 24 hours given what is going on elsewhere. And there is a good chance she might like it that way.

[Bazile]

Don't be patronising , you two
Of course i know it wasn't that simple .
I said that , because it obviously played a large part in getting her released , reading between the lines

[Gromit]

The International Court of Arbitration ruled 21 years ago that we owed them the money. We just ignored the ruling.

Our differences with Iran will be sorted in weeks and sanctions lifted and oil will flow again.

And Putin’s economy trounced.

[naomi24]

Gromit. //Boris must be quaking in his Peppa aping slippers.//

I doubt that very much. She is an educated woman - she is no filing clerk. As Hopkirk said you have to ask WHY Boris said what he said - something that Boris bashers don't seem to want to do. This from the link I provided.

//Nazanin Zaghari was born and raised in Tehran and studied English literature at the University of Tehran, before becoming an English teacher. Following the 2003 Bam earthquake she worked as a translator in the relief effort for the Japan International Cooperation Agency. She later worked for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and then moved to the World Health Organization as a communications officer.[12]
In 2007, Zaghari-Ratcliffe moved to the UK after receiving a scholarship to study for a Masters in Communication Management at London Metropolitan University….. Zaghari-Ratcliffe worked for the BBC World Service Trust from February 2009 to October 2010,[7] then worked at the Thomson Reuters Foundation as a project coordinator before taking on the role of a project manager.[15//

By the way, I'm pleased she's coming home too. Let's hope she doesn't go back.

[sandra4444]

At this moment in time I would prefer any mistakes Boris makes to the ones Putin is making.

[Gromit]

Naomi,
From the same link, you conveniently didn’t copy this bit…
// Thomson Reuters Foundation, called on Johnson to "immediately correct the serious mistake he made" in this statement. They added "She is not a journalist and has never trained journalists at the Thomson Reuters Foundation". //
Johnson never corrected his error.

[Peter Pedant]

(*)but dont worry folks, as ever Naomi remains a.....

Boris ( Borisek to those who know) his sin a/c to the beeb was that he said the girl (' the nazarene') had been 'training journos' when she had been on holiday. (there) OK for us and major whoopsie in Farsi apparently

(*) - yeah criminology lectured by this fella
Delinquency - Its Roots Careers & Prospects: Its Roots, Careers, and Prospects D.j. West | 1 Jul 1982 and this fella- - - the Oliver Zangwill Centre website - not the website but the fella

[Peter Pedant]

Grom - leave it it aint worf it

They have just had viddie of her being arrested 7 y ago -she looks pretty gob smacked...altho I had thought she had been told not to go

[tiggerblue10]

So glad she's on her way home now. Her family must be so relieved.

[naomi24]

What did the BBC World Service Trust ... an international charity that provided training courses to Iranian citizen journalists and bloggers… say, Gromit?