Controversy of the week
It was “standing room only” in Portcullis House in Westminster, when Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe gave her first press conference after her return from Iran, said John Crace in The Guardian. For six years, Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a charity worker, had been held on trumped-up charges of spying, a “silent figure” in a highly charged “political drama” between Tehran and London. But when, at last, she was able to speak herself, she first thanked her husband Richard, and raised the plight of others, such as the British-Iranian conservationist Morad Tahbaz, still imprisoned in Iran. Then she let rip: with “an icy, almost steely” fury, she asked why it had taken six years and “five foreign secretaries” to bring her home. That’s a good question, said Patrick Wintour in the same…
