Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is ‘hostage in £400m dispute’ with Iran

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was allowed to attend her daughter Gabriella's sixth birthday in June. She was jailed by Iran in 2016
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was allowed to attend her daughter Gabriella's sixth birthday in June. She was jailed by Iran in 2016

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is being held “hostage” in Iran and was close to being freed in 2017 before a deal fell through, according to a new documentary.

Her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, said that they were even given a release date of December 28 in 2017, when his wife would be allowed to return to the UK. It is unclear why the deal fell through. Mr Ratcliffe believes that his wife is being held by Iran as “diplomatic leverage”.

Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a British-Iranian charity worker who was detained in Iran in April 2016 while travelling home to London with her young daughter. She has since been sentenced to five years in prison for allegedly plotting against the Iranian government, a charge she has always denied.

The