The UK has rejected any suggestion of a prisoner swap linked to the detention of British travellers Craig Foreman and Lindsay Foreman, even as claims emerge that Iranian officials have repeatedly raised the case of an Iranian-born offender in private discussions.
At the centre of the controversy is Richard Jan, a man once described by UK authorities as 'Britain's worst stalker', whose long-running imprisonment has become unexpectedly entangled in wider UK-Iran prisoner swap negotiations.
