Boris Johnson blasted by Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband as she starts her third year in Iranian prison
Richard Ratcliffe - husband of jailed Nazanin - said 'we didn’t expect to be needing to mark this anniversary - not after the hopes of Christmas and the Foreign Secretary’s word'
BORIS Johnson has been blasted over Brit mum Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on the second anniversary of her imprisonment.
Her husband Richard Ratcliffe accused him of raising hopes of a release in Iran last year.
He said: “We didn’t expect to be needing to mark this anniversary - not after the hopes of Christmas and the Foreign Secretary’s word.”
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Mr Johnson “has not done enough”, he added, and called on Theresa May to intervene.
His wife, 39, was jailed for five years after being arrested on trumped-up spy charges as she waited to fly home from seeing family in Tehran.
The Foreign Office said last night: “We continue to approach her case . . . in a way we judge is most likely to secure the outcome we all want.
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