Possibility of Nazanin Zaghari's release; British negotiating team in Tehran
A British delegation has traveled to Tehran for negotiations, and the possibility of the release of Nazanin Zaghari, a dual national prisoner in Iran, has increased.
Iranian authorities have returned Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's British passport, a British MP has said, and the dual-national's lawyer has expressed hope that she will be released.
After Hojjat Kermani, the lawyer for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a dual national imprisoned in Iran, told Reuters on Tuesday that “we hope to hear good news soon,” British MP Tulip Siddique tweeted that Ms. Zaghari had her British passport back “after six years.” She said that Nazanin Zaghari was still at her family home in Tehran, adding that “a British negotiating team is currently in Tehran.”
Nazanin Zaghari is a 43-year-old British-Iranian citizen who was arrested while leaving Iran in 2016 and later sentenced to five years in prison on security charges. Ms. Zaghari was temporarily released from prison in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, but a year later the court sentenced her to another sentence.
Other dual nationals or foreigners imprisoned in Iran include Siamak and Bagher Namazi, Emad Sharghi and Morad Tahbaz (Iranian-American citizens), Mehrdad Raouf and Anousheh Ashouri (Iranian-British citizens); Ahmadreza Jalali (Iranian-Swedish researcher), Masoud Mosaheb and Kamran Ghaderi (Iranian-Austrian citizens), Fariba Adelkhah (Iranian-French citizen) and Nahid Taghavi (German citizen of Iranian descent), as well as French tourist Benjamin Brier.
Source: Voice of America
