The former British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has told a committee of MPs that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards often used their control of detainees like Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe as a “tool” to prevent compromises they opposed.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 43, who had dual British and Iranian nationality, and who returned to the UK in March after spending six years in detention in Iran, revealed on Monday she had been forced to sign a “false confession” in front of a UK government official before she was allowed to leave Iran.
She was arrested at a Tehran airport in April 2016 as she prepared to head back to Britain with her daughter after a family visit and was later jailed after being convicted of plotting to overthrow Iran’s clerical establishment….