Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's Daughter

[smurfchops]

I feel she shouldn’t be paraded in the public eye now, she looks uncomfortable. She is a little girl and should be at school. This could affect her for a long time.

[Gromit]

// This could affect her for a long time. //

And her mum rotting in a Tehran jail for 6 years hasn’t ?

[Peter Pedant]

doesnt seem to worry them ( grils, fame, cameras)

quite a lot of this is self imposed - she didnt have to go to Iran and went against advice.
"You gomm een and we dont let you oud" - it is hardly the first time it has happened....

[Sqad]

I just can't warm to this woman, I can imagine her p..ssing off the Iranians.

She has gone through the ringer, but still I cannot warm to her.

[THECORBYLOON]

SQAD, on what evidence have you based your opinion of her?

[naomi24]

It doesn't require evidence. He can't warm to her, that's all.

[ladybirder]

Exactly.

[Sqad]

Corby.....haven't you ever made that comment to some man/woman that you had never met and only seen in/on the media :?

" I just don't like him/her , something about them"

Nothing scientific or technical just a "gut feeling."

[pat2604]

Sqad, we felt the same after watching her press conference last night. You are free from alone.

[pat2604]

To some on here my OH is not a true british Citizen because of his name and the fact he wasn't born here!!

[pat2604]

Far from alone!

[THECORBYLOON]

NAOMI, what job was she doing in Iran at the time of her arrest?

[naomi24]

I don't know.

[naomi24]

Why are you asking me anyway, Corby?

[Hopkirk]

Boris won't have made up what he said. Someone must have told him that.
I don't think we know the whole story.

[dannyk13]

Corby //She said she had been taking her daughter Gabriella, now six, to visit her parents and celebrate the Iranian new year.//
//Both the Thomson Reuters Foundation and BBC Media Action issued statements confirming that she was not working in Iran but was on holiday.//

[naomi24]

Hopkirk, I think you're right. We don’t know the whole story, but she is an educated woman who worked in education specifically in the area of journalism. As I see it, when she arrived in Iran she was already a marked woman so wasn't necessarily arrested for what she was doing at that specific time but for what she had done - or for what they perceived her to have done - previously. Why anyone expects such a corrupt regime to behave in a gracious or even a reasonable fashion is quite beyond me. I hope she has the good sense never to return there.

[THECORBYLOON]

NAOMI, you posted earlier, "Looking at her employment history I don't think Johnson got befuddled."

He telt a Select Committee in November 2017, "When I look at what Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was doing, she was simply teaching people journalism as I understand it."

When she was arrested, she had been working for the Thomson Reuters Foundation and they said, after his remarks, she had travelled to Iran in a personal capacity and had not been doing work in Iran.

Sounds to me that the PM was not sure of the facts.

[Ellipsis]

She's spent six years in captivity in Iran. I'm not surprised she's upset.

Of course, she's grateful to be out, but her point is that she could have been out six years ago and spending those years with her daughter rather than rotting in Iran. What actually changed to allow her out now rather than back then? Answer: the UK government paid what it admitted was a "legitimate" debt, which it could have done years ago.

So she's grateful to be free, but not much grateful to a government that went through five Foreign Secretaries in six years, including the hapless Boris of the FO who really queered her pitch, and finally did what it could have done years ago.

[naomi24]

Corby, //Sounds to me that the PM was not sure of the facts. //

It does? Okay.

[Cloverjo]

So many shoulda, coulda, woulda. We can’t go back 6 years. Johnson can’t unsay the thing he said.

Let’s be grateful that a family is finally reunited. And please can we leave them alone now.