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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Toby Helm and Michael Savage

Family’s MP says Johnson’s ‘poor grasp’ of Zaghari-Ratcliffe case led to errors

The then foreign secretary Boris Johnson meets with Richard Ratcliffe in 2017.
The then foreign secretary Boris Johnson meets with Richard Ratcliffe in 2017. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Shocking new evidence of how Boris Johnson blundered when he was foreign secretary over the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe can be revealed – after the 43-year-old former charity worker was reunited with her family following a harrowing six-year detention in Iran.

The emotional reunion early on Thursday with her husband, Richard, and seven-year-old daughter Gabriella came after Britain agreed to pay a debt of £393.8m to Iran relating to an order for Chieftain tanks.

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