Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Boris Johnson's death sentence

[not-bono-ever]

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[8ball]

Just read the bit after the dash in the thread title.
Disappointed now.

 

[Pickman's model]

Yeh, me too - every time I see this thread and read the magic words 'boris johnson's death sentence' my hopes always rise only to be cruelly, cruelly dashed

 

[splonkydoo]

Boris' Johnsons death sentence

 

[not-bono-ever]

Iran fears Trump preparing attack in final weeks in office

Tehran says it will defend itself forcefully as tensions rise ahead of anniversary of Suleimani killing

www.theguardian.com

this kinda thing from the orange emperor will not help

 

[hash tag]

Part on an email from Amnesty. Every MP has been canvassed by a constituent!

 

[kebabking]

Part on an email from Amnesty. Every MP has been canvassed by a constituent! View attachment 246759

What urgent action are they proposing, and what would you suggest or support?

 

[hash tag]

If Iran won't release her immediately and unconditionally ( bearing in mind also that her initial sentence is nearly up ) then we should exchange her with Pritti Patel.

 

[teqniq]

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s family hope jailed Briton could be freed in weeks

Incoming US administration offers ‘additional possibilities’ for her case, says Dominic Raab

www.independent.co.uk

Unless the Iranians ccok up some excuse to extend her sentence....

 

[hash tag]

I hope there's truth in that report, though I can't help feeling that Raab is clutching at straws. This might be his back door way of getting help with piling on pressure. Still, if it helps..

 

[MrSki]

Hope for her sake it happens. Poor woman what she has been through in an Iranian prison during Covid let alone being away from her her child & husband.

 

[hash tag]

I think it's far too soon to get too hopeful

Foreign Office tells Richard Ratcliffe to keep quiet as wife's release date nears

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s five-year jail term in Iran ends on 7 March and officials want to avoid antagonising Tehran

www.theguardian.com

 

[Artaxerxes]

I think it's far too soon to get too hopeful

Foreign Office tells Richard Ratcliffe to keep quiet as wife's release date nears

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s five-year jail term in Iran ends on 7 March and officials want to avoid antagonising Tehran

www.theguardian.com

Cheeky considering its the foreign office yapping that got her arrested

 

[zahir]

Another hostage has made it out of Iran.

Academic jailed in Iran pulls off daring escape back to Britain

Exclusive: Kameel Ahmady smuggled himself out through mountainous border after being sentenced to nine years

www.theguardian.com

 

[hash tag]

Another hostage has made it out of Iran.

Academic jailed in Iran pulls off daring escape back to Britain

Exclusive: Kameel Ahmady smuggled himself out through mountainous border after being sentenced to nine years

www.theguardian.com

I just hope that is not cue for Iran to take a tougher stance for others. It's just impossible to call. They can be so unpredictable.

 

[kebabking]

I don't know if they are that unpredictable...

They might be more amenable and want to win friends and influence people with the Biden WH - the bloke (Robert Mallet) who helped negotiate the nuclear deal for Obama has been made Iran envoy.

Iran has a Byzantine power structure/structures, usually in competition/conflict with each other and with different objectives - who is winning at any point is often difficult to tell, and how they will go about managing their different audiences/targets/enemies is more difficult to predict.

 

[hash tag]

If nothing else, we certainly can't rely on Iran to do the decent thing and I am not just taking about NZR but many other prisoners who might have dual nationality, might be charged with political things, spying, treason Etc. NZR is certainly not alone in her plight,

 

[hash tag]

I am not a betting man and certainly wouldn't bet on her release any time soon

We cannot let this massive milestone go unnoticed.​ View in browser​

My name is Richard Ratcliffe, and I am the husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. As you know, Nazanin is a British-Iranian citizen who has been unjustly imprisoned in Iran for nearly five years. Thank you so much for taking action for Nazanin during this time. Our five years are almost done. Nazanin is due to complete her five-year sentence on 7 March. My hope is that Nazanin should be coming home to the UK, to me and our six-year-old daughter, Gabriella. We are all counting down the days to when she should be flying home - 8 March. As the deadline approaches, we are becoming increasingly unsure - is this really an imminent homecoming? We have had no response to our queries from the Iranian government. The UK government has not been able to confirm that preparations are in place to get her home: to remove the ankle tag that restricts her movements, to return her British or Iranian passports, to clear her to catch a plane. The silence has become very alarming, almost as though her release date is being pretended away. Please stand with me and Nazanin in our countdown to what should be the day she comes home. We cannot let this massive milestone go unnoticed. Amnesty UK and I will be posting online every day, calling on the Iranian authorities and the UK government to do everything necessary to secure Nazanin’s release, so that she can immediately fly home to us. Join me and Amnesty UK by sharing our daily social media posts as we countdown the next 10 crucial days.​

 

[skyscraper101]

The new court date/charge is worrying.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe must be released 'permanently', says PM

The British-Iranian's five-year sentence on spying charges has ended, but she faces a separate court case.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[teqniq]

Free, after a fashion, but definitely not out of the woods:

 

[hash tag]

She's out of prison and no ankle tag...

Home - Contact an Embassy - GOV.UK

www.contact-embassy.service.gov.uk

 

[weltweit]

This new court hearing doesn't bode well I am afraid.

I don't see any evidence Iran plans to let her return home.

 

[weltweit]

Perhaps Britain should pay back the Iranian money for the tanks that we didn't deliver?

 

[kebabking]

Perhaps Britain should pay back the Iranian money for the tanks that we didn't deliver?

I, for one, am sure they'll spend it on Good Works...

 

[weltweit]

I, for one, am sure they'll spend it on Good Works...

Well the original tanks were perhaps not such a great idea.

 

[eatmorecheese]

She is, to put it crudely, a diplonatic tool of the regime.

Let's see what happens.

 

[weltweit]

I, for one, am sure they'll spend it on Good Works...

Presumably it is the international sanctions regime that is preventing us paying the money back?

 

[kebabking]

She is, to put it crudely, a diplonatic tool of the regime.

Let's see what happens.

I am moderately more optimistic about the chances that all the hostages will be released - it's not just NZR - with the Biden WH actively looking for some form of deal with Iran, conversely however Biden is far less transactional and ego-driven than Trump, and he may well look to just get what he wants from a nuclear deal and accept not getting the plaudits that getting the various hostages out.

He may also take a longer view about the wisdom of rewarding hostage taking behaviour.

 

[kebabking]

Presumably it is the international sanctions regime that is preventing us paying the money back?

Yup. The detail is that the money is held in trust by the MOD, if the MOD gives the money to Iran - or some intermediary - then the Defence Secretary could (theoretically, and possibly not theoretically) find themselves in serious legal trouble, including a long prison sentence.

The FCO think the MOD's legal advice is wrong, but it wouldn't be the Foreign Secretary doing 12 years in Belmarsh if the FCO is wrong, so the MOD think the FCO can go and fuck themselves...

 

[Badgers]