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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Gavin Cordon

Trump ‘hostility’ hampered efforts to secure release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe, says ex-foreign secretary

PA Wire

Efforts to secure the freedom of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe from detention in Iran were complicated by the “hostility” of Donald Trump’s administration, former foreign secretary Philip Hammond said.

Giving evidence to the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, Lord Hammond said the arrival in the White House of President Joe Biden was key to the agreement which led to the release of the UK-Iranian dual national earlier this year.

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