This poor woman is being held under appalling conditions, and has been for 19 months, and her case is not helped by these stupid, ignorant remarks by Ministers that should know better.
if a politician knows his words will imperil a British citizen abroad, he should keep his mouth shut. if a politician doesn't know what effect his words will have abroad, he should keep his mouth shut. Pretty basic stuff, really. Doesn't affect people on social media, who routinely don't know what they're talking about.
Gove said that he didn't know why this woman was in Iran, when the official British Government line is that she was visiting relatives with her son. So he did know....if he didn't, he should have done.
To be frank, if all he can say is things that make Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's situation worse, perhaps he should remain silent.
Iran is using this poor woman for propaganda reasons. Its about the Foreign Office pulled its finger out.
Jonny...yes, its obvious she is not a spy, and yes, Iran is to blame. But that is why our Government should be doing something useful, rather than letting our Ministers make fools of themselves, and make her situation worse.
That might be a reasonable point if we were talking about a normal person who had just made a gaff, Hopkirk. But it's not unreasonable to expect a foreign secretary to exercise some diplomacy and think about what he should say before he does - because he ended up causing her further harm.
//Now Gove "doesn't know why she was in Iran"//, snap, I don't know why she was in Iran. What possesses any sane person to set foot in one of these tish h0les is beyond me.
She has Family there and has dual British / Iranian citizenship, and claims to be visiting Family for the Persian New Year. Seems a reasonable explanation for the visit.
///Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested at Tehran airport with her 18-month-old daughter in April 2016, one of several Iranians with dual nationality to be detained over a period of months.
She was accused of trying to overthrow the Iranian regime - charges she has always denied - and sentenced to five years' imprisonment.
She says she was on holiday in Iran so relatives could meet her young daughter.///
For those of you more inclined to post before reading the full detail.
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