Richard with Nazanin, who he says is being sold short by the government
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When Richard Ratcliffe asked the Foreign Office for clarification on its responsibilities to his wife Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, he expected to be reassured.
The government has previously granted diplomatic protection to Zaghari-Ratcliffe – who has almost finished a five-year jail sentence in Iran on spying charges she denies – and this year Boris Johnson sent a Christmas card to the couple’s six-year-old daughter Gabriella, apologising for taking “so long” to get her mummy home.
When he was foreign secretary in 2017, he also promised to “leave no stone unturned” to bring Zaghari-Ratcliffe home.