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The long tentacle of terror

The long tentacle of terror

Freed at last from captivity in Tehran, Nazanin still has reason to fear

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Melanie Phillips
Mar 23, 2022
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori arrive at RAF Brize Norton from captivity in Iran

At her press conference in Britain following her release from Iran where she had been jailed for six years on trumped-up spying charges, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe startled observers by criticising the British government for her incarceration. She said:

I was t…

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