19 Apr 2024
Saturday 11 November 2017 - 17:38
Story Code : 282767

Foreign Office attempts to repair Boris Johnson damage with Iran

The Guardian | andThe Foreign Office is studying a package of measures to ease relations with Iran before a visit to Tehran byBoris Johnsonthat has been billed as the foreign secretarys chance to win the release of the jailed British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.

On Friday, the FCO was playing down the chances of a breakthrough in the visit later this year, and stressed that any measures to ease Anglo-Iranian relations had already been under consideration before Johnson said incorrectly that Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been teaching people journalism in Tehran. Her family and employer have always said she was on holiday at the time she was arrested.

The Iranian judiciary and media seized onJohnsons remarks, made at a foreign affairs select committee hearing last week, to claim that he had revealed the truth about her activities in Iran.

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