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]

The Thomson Reuters Foundation on hearing Johnson’s false statement to the Select Committee went on record to say it was incorrect and it urged the Foreign Secretary to amend it and put the record straight.
He never did.
Shortly after, the Iranians used Johnson’s evidence to convict her.

[pat2604]

Far more from it than meets the eye and we should stop speculating. She's home, but she's going to make the most out of this.

[anneasquith]

I wonder if her husband had not worked so hard to get her released ( and friends,family) if she would still be in Iran in prison? . ?

[ladybirder]

Not unless they also paid the £400m debt

[naomi24]

Gromit, //urged the Foreign Secretary to amend it and put the record straight.
He never did. //

Yes he did.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/nov/13/boris-johnson-says-sorry-for-mistake-jailed-briton-iran-nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe

[THECORBYLOON]

"I hope the House will understand with crystal clarity that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was there on holiday. She was not there in any professional capacity.

Insofar that people got a different impression, it was my mistake, I should have been clearer ... I apologise for the distress and anguish caused to Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her family. Our priority now is to everything we can to get her out of Iran on humanitarian grounds."

Looks like he was befuddled when making his original comments to the Select Committee.

[douglas9401]

I've not followed the story closely, is there a meeting planned so that our leader can discuss throwaway statements and empty apologies with the former detainee over a glass of something cold?

[anneasquith]

Or have a party at Downing Street ?

[naomi24]

He wasn't befuddled. He reported the information he was given. He didn't pluck the nature of her work out of thin air. That was her job and that's what landed her in trouble. As I said earlier I believe she was a marked woman when she arrived in Iran - regardless of what she says she was doing there on that occasion.

[THECORBYLOON]

Did she actually teach journalism?

"Zaghari-Ratcliffe had worked for an online BBC World Service Trust journalist training course, but it was a purely administrative role, booking Iranian and other students on courses."

[DTCwordfan]

as to smurf's comment, I am sure the daughter has been truly well-traumatised before her mother came home and visiting the auce of the HP....the last two events minor given the last six years.

To be fair NZ did hint at a step-back from public glare though I bet there's a book and a film to be forthcoming - and who can blame her.

[anneasquith]

Mother and daughter were separated for 6 years unlawfully, and some say she ( the child) should be at school. Ridiculous .

[naomi24]

Corby, if she's a bookings clerk she's vastly over-qualified.

//studied English literature at the University of Tehran, before becoming an English teacher… she worked as a translator … for the Japan International Cooperation Agency. She later worked for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and then moved to the World Health Organization as a communications officer… moved to the UK after receiving a scholarship to study for a Masters in Communication Management at London Metropolitan University….. Zaghari-Ratcliffe has worked for the BBC World Service Trust (now called BBC Media Action),[21] an international charity that provided training courses to Iranian citizen journalists and bloggers in its Iran Media Development Project's ZigZag magazine and associated radio programme//

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazanin_Zaghari-Ratcliffe

[THECORBYLOON]

Anything about teaching journalism?

[naomi24]

She worked for //an international charity that provided training courses to Iranian citizen journalists //

Did you not read it, Corby?

[chelle7272]

Have you read it Naomi?

On the same page:
Her employer, Thomson Reuters Foundation, called on Johnson to "immediately correct the serious mistake he made" in this statement.
They added "She is not a journalist and has never trained journalists at the Thomson Reuters Foundation".
Four days later, Zaghari-Ratcliffe was returned to court in Iran where the Foreign Secretary's statement was cited as evidence against her

[naomi24]

Yes, I did read it, chelle.

//Zaghari-Ratcliffe worked for the BBC World Service Trust between February 2009 and October 2010, "in a junior capacity as a Training Assistant" ...//

The Thomson Reuters Foundation made it clear that they were talking about their organisation. As far as I can see the BBC World Service Trust hasn't commented.

[chelle7272]

The BBC job was years before she even went to Iran. She was not employed by them at the time, and a hadn't been for 6 years when she was imprisoned, so that is completely irrelevant.

[dannyk13]

Naomi // far as I can see the BBC World Service Trust hasn't commented.//
See my post at 11..09.

[naomi24]

Irrelevant? Not, in my opinion, to the potty powers that be in Iran. As I said I think she was a marked woman - which was why they nabbed her at the first opportunity.