The government imposed “significant suffering” on the British-Iranian dual nationals Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori by spurning early opportunities to secure their freedom, a scathing report by the foreign affairs select committee has found.
The report into Foreign Office handling of hostage diplomacy says it is highly regrettable that such opportunities were missed, when evidence from former ministers showed the terms of their release were no different when they were freed in 2022 to those on offer in 2017.
