UK PM tells Iranian President to let British-Iranian aid worker to return home

Reuters | Andrew Boyers

British President tells to let the British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe allow them to return home with their family.

The UK PM Boris Johnson spoke about the UK's commitment to making s success of a multilateral 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and urged Rouhani to end Iranian breaches of the terms of that deal that began after the United States withdrew from it in 2018.

There was a statement heard from Johnson's office after a call with Rouhani on Wednesday stating, "The prime minister raised the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and other British-Iranian dual nationals detained in Iran and demanded their immediate release."

Prime minister Johnson said about different cases from the past like of Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with Thomson Reuters Foundation Charity, who was arrested at a Tehran airport in April 2016 and convicted of plotting to overthrow the clerical establishment.

She served a five-year sentence which now is ended but she isn't still free to leave the country and has been ordered to appear for a new court case.

"He stressed the importance of Iran seizing the opportunity presented by the United States' willingness to return to the deal if Iran comes back into compliance," the statement said.

Iran has been refusing to engage itself in a meeting brokered by the European Union between world powers and the United States on reviving the deal.

Publish : 2021-03-11 10:02:00

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