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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Foreign Secretary statement, 7 March 2021

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab comments on the removal of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s ankle tag.

• From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and The Rt Hon Dominic Raab
• Published: 7 March 2021

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said:

We welcome the removal of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s ankle tag, but Iran continues to put her and her family through a cruel and an intolerable ordeal.

She must be released permanently so she can return to her family in the UK. We will continue to do all we can to achieve this.

We have relayed to the Iranian authorities in the strongest possible terms that her continued confinement is unacceptable.

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Published 7 March 2021