Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Boris Johnson's death sentence

[Pickman's model]

Because they are inefficient and useless. But we know that. Just because they don't appear to act doesn't mean to say we should sweep it under the carpet and let it blow over. There are other issues at stake here which should be questioned. They have been questioned before but nothing ever changes of course. I won't be complicit by ignoring it.

I'm not ignoring it. But we all know the government won't act because her husband skips a few meals

 

[kebabking]

ecause they are inefficient and useless. But we know that. Just because they don't appear to act doesn't mean to say we should sweep it under the carpet and let it blow over. There are other issues at stake here which should be questioned. They have been questioned before but nothing ever changes of course. I won't be complicit by ignoring it.

I'm not convinced that caring - apart from RR and her immediate family - is part of the scene here. It's all, and you'll forgive me, but I include you, for the reasons I set out above, about performative caring, being seen to care/do something.

You, eventually, admit that there isn't a solution that would both satisfy Iran and wouldn't reward hostage taking and give £500m to people who hang gay people from cranes in sports stadiums - which, to be clear, isn't an acceptable outcome - yet you blame HMG for not 'doing something', the something being somewhat mysterious, but that doesn't seem to matter...

 

[hash tag]

Very sadly, NZR is just a poster girl for much bigger issues, but that doesn't mean we should forget about her and others in a similar position to her. In fact I seem to recall that "ransoms" were paid by allies to release people in a similar position to her. Should we follow that lead or should we have spoken out against it. Potentially, behind all this is ransom monies resulting from a failed arms deal. We should not be manufacturing or dealing arms. Did we try to stop the lifting of the arms embargo when it expired recently or the trade embargoes prior to that Have we done much to enlist the help of our allies or the United Nations?

 

[hash tag]

We have £400 million of Iran's money which doesn't belong to us. Because of sanctions we can't give it back, but, if it were dressed up as humanitarian aid it would be a bitter pill to swallow but might work?
BBC News - Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband vows to continue hunger strike

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband vows to continue hunger strike

The British-Iranian aid worker, who has been detained in Iran, faces a return to prison.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[weltweit]

If I understand it right a couple of western countries have effectively paid off Iran for various issues and seem to have gotten away with it.

 

[hash tag]

Could be interesting and worth a listen BBC Radio 4 - Nazanin, Episode 1
"apparent corruption" It's the arms trade; a filthy corrupt business

 

[hash tag]

By coincidence, this pops up in todays paper

Zaghari-Ratcliffe ‘angry at her life being stolen’ after deal for release collapses

Charity worker’s husband demands transparency from No 10 amid fears she is being used as ‘bargaining chip’ in nuclear talks

www.theguardian.com

 

[Pickman's model]

By coincidence, this pops up in todays paper

Zaghari-Ratcliffe ‘angry at her life being stolen’ after deal for release collapses

Charity worker’s husband demands transparency from No 10 amid fears she is being used as ‘bargaining chip’ in nuclear talks

www.theguardian.com

The government has done so much to put her where she is

 

[hash tag]

The government has done so much to put her where she is

Stop the arms trade and stop it now.
It would be a start.

 

[Pickman's model]

Stop the arms trade and stop it now.
It would be a start.

Your stop start politics wouldn't help nzr at all

 

[hash tag]

You might have missed something along my pathway

 

[Pickman's model]

You might have missed something along my pathway

Yeh I've yet to see any opinion on your 'pathway' which deserved airing in the cold light of day

 

[hash tag]

Yeh I've yet to see any opinion on your 'pathway' which deserved airing in the cold light of day

deep down, my politics & beliefs remain constant but this detracts from NZR.

 

[philosophical]

Boris Johnson made things worse.
Pay the fucking money…it’s a fraction of the amount these Tories have corruptly given their mates, and also stolen. Russia may not be the only kleptocracy.
Every single PMQ’s somebody should ask this question:
‘Prime minister, British National Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe who has been imprisoned in Iran now for over six years because you made her position worse, can you provide the House with an update on her circumstances?’
Every single PMQ’s.
Every one.

 

[Nikkormat]

Background to Nazanin's case is explored in this BBC podcast series. I've not listened to it all yet, but so far it seems very good: Nazanin - Episode 1 - BBC Sounds

Edit to add: listened to it all now, and it is worthwhile.

 

[hash tag]

It was certainly worth posting a reminder

 

[Ming]

He fucked up, made her situation worse (while foreign secretary) and then put her and her family on ignore. What an irredeemable piece of shit he is.

 

[platinumsage]

 

[hash tag]

Hopefully that's good news. If she comes home she has to pick up her life again which is no easy task I imagine. Look what happened to John McCarthy and Jill morel.

 

[Dogsauce]

Might be a good faith gesture ahead of the rumoured revival of the Iranian nuclear deal, although that has stalled recently as I understand Russia was a partner to it and they're unlikely to want something that allows Iran to start increasing global oil supplies.

 

[gosub]

£400 million for a British passport and it's not even blue one

 

[tim]

£400 million for a British passport and it's not even blue one

It would have been cheaper for the consulate just to issue her with a replacement. That's what they did when mine got nicked.

 

[fucthest8]

This is a tiny bit of good news amongst all the shit.

Not sure joking about the price of her passport is really on though. The fucking suffering that woman has been through.

 

[skyscraper101]

She's on her way to the airport now along with Anoosheh Ashouri

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori: British-Iranian detainees returning to UK today, Liz Truss confirms

Another British-Iranian man, Morad Tahbaz, has been released from an Iranian prison on "furlough" but Tehran would not allow him to fly back with the other two detainees.

news.sky.com

 

[Pickman's model]

She's on her way to the airport now along with Anoosheh Ashouri

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori: British-Iranian detainees returning to UK today, Liz Truss confirms

Another British-Iranian man, Morad Tahbaz, has been released from an Iranian prison on "furlough" but Tehran would not allow him to fly back with the other two detainees.

news.sky.com

Boris Johnson is running round 10 downing street flapping his hands and wailing as he knows precisely what she intends to do to him, as she rightly blames him for so much of her ordeal

 

[teqniq]

She's on her way to the airport now along with Anoosheh Ashouri

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori: British-Iranian detainees returning to UK today, Liz Truss confirms

Another British-Iranian man, Morad Tahbaz, has been released from an Iranian prison on "furlough" but Tehran would not allow him to fly back with the other two detainees.

news.sky.com

Fantastic news but it’s an indictment on successive UK administrations that it took so long.

 

[Pickman's model]

Fantastic news but it’s an indictment on successive UK administrations that it took so long.

On successive Tory administrations. But only one of many indictments of those nefandous administrations

 

[hash tag]

Boris Johnson is running round 10 downing street flapping his hands and wailing as he knows precisely what she intends to do to him, as she rightly blames him for so much of her ordeal

Johnson is of course in Saudi Kowtowing to the warmongering torturers. Maybe they will take him "hostage".

 

[alex_]

Johnson is of course in Saudi Kowtowing to the warmongering torturers. Maybe they will take him "hostage".

That’s very unfair - he is only there training journalists.

 

[Voley]

Family understandably anxious until she's actually left the airport but this does sound like good news.

BBC News - Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on way home to UK

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori on way home to UK

British-Iranian nationals Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori are being flown back to their families after being released by Iran.

www.bbc.co.uk