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Boris Johnson has been accused of presiding over a failure of British diplomacy amid fears Iran will send detained aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe back to jail.
The British-Iranian citizen was on Monday handed a one-year sentence and is banned from leaving the country for a further year after being found guilty of “propaganda against the system”.
Her lawyer said the charge stemmed from her attendance at a 2009 protest outside Iran’s embassy in London.
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Her husband Richard Ratcliffe labelled his wife s treatment torture and on Tuesday warned the government needed to take a tougher line with Iran or her release would likely be delayed until 2023.