The Critical Commentator

  Thank God that Nanazin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has now been released. In her press conference she asked the question of why the debt that Britain owed Iran had not been paid earlier and why five Foreign Secretaries did so little. Here was what was written two and three years ago.  Iran Persian Encampment Ovid Curtovitch (b. 1855) Photo Credit: Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum [CC BY-NC-ND] Britain "is beginning to look weak" over a failure to protect its citizens imprisoned by Iran, the former foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt has warned. The government has failed to demonstrate any consequences for the imprisonment of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe nearly two years after the case was formally elevated to a diplomatic dispute between London and Tehran, he said... Mr Hunt also suggests that sanctions on Iran are no barrier to the repayment of a historical £400 million debt Britain owes to Tehran and that the money could be repaid in medicines or other humanitarian supplies. Mrs Zagha