The Guardian | Patrick Wintour: Foreign secretary says small event could spark catastrophe in region as he pushes Yemen peace plan

The Middle East is a tinderbox where one small event could lead to a catastrophe on the scale of the first world war, Jeremy Hunt has warned, as he pushed for the release of the Iranian-British dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on his first visit to Iran as foreign secretary.

Hunt�s visit to Tehran, the first by a foreign minister since the US reimposed sanctions on oil exports earlier this month, included talks to persuade Iran to back a UK-sponsored peace settlement in Yemen and not to pull out of the 2015 nuclear deal with the west over Europe�s apparent inability to circumvent the US sanctions.

After talks with the Iranian foreign minister, Javad Zarif, Hunt privately met Zaghari-Ratcliffe�s family, including her four-year-old daughter Gabriella and her brother. He had pressed to go to the prison to see Zaghari-Ratcliffe, but was refused.

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