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  • Friday, 5 August, 2022
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: ‘I don’t know how I survived’

    The former prisoner of Iran on her six-year ordeal, the politics behind her release — and the joy of being reunited with her daughter

  • Monday, 21 March, 2022
    Zaghari-Ratcliffe criticises UK officials over delays to securing her release

    British-Iranian dual national says it should not have taken five foreign secretaries to free her from detention in Tehran

  • Friday, 18 March, 2022
    Person in the News
    Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: a political hostage in Iran finally returns home

    As the charity worker is reunited with her family, there are questions over why it took Britain so long to secure her freedom

  • Thursday, 17 March, 2022
    UK foreign policy
    UK paid ‘blood money’ to secure release of Iran detainees

    Former US secretary of state says debt payment for cancelled tank deal smacks of ‘appeasement’

  • Thursday, 17 March, 2022
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Iran should grasp opportunity for nuclear deal

    Zaghari-Ratcliffe release and a Russian shift are positive signs

  • Thursday, 17 March, 2022
    Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe arrives back in UK after release by Iran

    British-Iranian Anoosheh Ashoori also freed as London pays debt related to undelivered tanks

  • Wednesday, 17 November, 2021
    Boris Johnson
    Johnson moots flying cash to Iran to free Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

    PM tells commons committee he would consider copying an operation ordered by Barack Obama in 2016

  • Friday, 12 November, 2021
    Person in the News
    Richard Ratcliffe, husband turned hunger striker

    As his wife, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, remains stranded in Iran, the accountant is desperate to secure her release

  • Thursday, 11 November, 2021
    UK-Iran talks fail to agree release terms for Zaghari-Ratcliffe

    Hunger-striking husband of aid worker imprisoned in Tehran calls meeting with British minister ‘depressing’

  • Monday, 26 April, 2021
    Zaghari-Ratcliffe sentenced to year in jail for ‘propaganda’ against Iran

    Anglo-Iranian charity worker had been freed last month after serving 5 years for espionage

  • Sunday, 14 March, 2021
    UK politics & policy
    Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe appears in Iranian court on fresh charges

    British-Iranian charity worker faces prosecution a week after previous sentence ended

  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    UK politics & policy
    Zaghari-Ratcliffe faces new court case despite release from house arrest

    Raab urges Iran to end the dual national charity worker’s ‘cruel and intolerable ordeal’

  • Saturday, 28 March, 2020
    Disease control and prevention
    Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has release extended by Tehran

    British-Iranian to be considered for clemency over espionage charges that she denies

  • Tuesday, 17 March, 2020
    Iran frees Zaghari-Ratcliffe temporarily as virus hits jails

    Tehran insists on ankle tag and staying within 300 metres of parents’ home

  • Thursday, 23 January, 2020
    Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband urges tougher stance on Iran

    Richard Ratcliffe says his wife is being used as a ‘chess piece’

  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2019
    Iran
    Dual Australian-UK nationals arrested in Iran

    British-Iranian tensions have been rising since Tehran’s seizure of a UK-flagged oil tanker

  • Wednesday, 24 April, 2019
    Iran suggests prisoner swap for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

    Foreign minister Zarif proposes exchange with inmates in US, Germany or Australia

  • Tuesday, 12 March, 2019
    Iran criticises UK’s diplomatic protection for Zaghari-Ratcliffe

    Officials claim it will make it more difficult to resolve the British-Iranian woman’s case

  • Thursday, 7 March, 2019
    Iran
    UK grants diplomatic protection to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

    Move elevates case of woman detained in Iran to state-to-state issue

  • Monday, 21 January, 2019
    News in-depthUK immigration
    Iranian expats in London saddened by UK tone on Channel migrants

    ‘We were very much welcomed’ after fleeing revolution 40 years ago but times have changed

  • Sunday, 26 August, 2018
    World
    Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe back in Tehran prison after three days of freedom

    British-Iranian mother returned to cell after failure to reach deal to extend release

  • Thursday, 23 August, 2018
    Iran nuclear deal
    Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe freed from Iranian jail for 3 days

    Husband calls temporary release ‘very happy surprise after number of false dawns’

  • Monday, 9 July, 2018
    Brexit battle
    Theresa May vows to fight removal attempts after Boris Johnson quits

    Hunt named foreign secretary after stinging exchange of letters over Brexit

  • Monday, 21 May, 2018
    World
    UK questions Iran over ‘new charges’ against Zaghari-Ratcliffe

    Husband of jailed Briton says she now faces allegation of spreading propaganda

  • Friday, 27 April, 2018
    World
    Efforts to free Zaghari-Ratcliffe from Iran jail have ‘hit a wall’

    Impasse highlights London-Tehran relations and safety of British nationals abroad

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