Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe would not have been freed without false confession, UK officials advised

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has claimed the Foreign Office was complicit in forcing her to sign a confession in front of TV cameras. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

British officials did not require Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to sign a forced confession before her departure from Iran, but instead advised her that the Iranians would not allow her to leave unless she did so, the UK’s Middle East minister, Amanda Milling, told MPs.

British officials also advised that it was standard Iranian practice for released detainees to have to sign such documents, Milling said.