Four men are hanged in Iran for gang-raping mountain climber in front of her husband

Four men are hanged in Iran for gang-raping mountain climber in front of her husband The men attacked the woman who was climbing a mountain in Khorasan Razavi They tied up her husband’s hands and feet and made him watch the gang-rape They were hanged on Monday after the Supreme Court in Iran found them guilty … Read more

Nazanin husband’s anger as British embassy refuses to accompany her to Iranian court

Nazanin husband’s anger as British embassy refuses to accompany her to Iranian court while world waits to learn if her six-year prison ordeal is over Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe jailed for five years in 2016 on trumped-up spying charges  Husband Richard Ratcliffe hoped British embassy would take wife to court   But British embassy in Tehran declined to … Read more

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe still ‘in harm’s way’

The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says her case has been a ‘failure of diplomacy and campaigning’ ahead of her return to court in Iran on Sunday. Richard Ratcliffe said it would take ‘a long time’ for his wife to recover from the psychological trauma of her ordeal, but that continuing media coverage had ‘kept her … Read more

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe tells of her ‘traumatising’ five years of hell in Iranian jail

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has told of her five years of ‘traumatising’ torture in Iran for the first time. In a video interview with independent investigators, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 43, revealed she was threatened with execution and the torture of her family. She was also chained and forced to wear a blindfold in prison where she suffered sensory … Read more

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Boris Johnson demands Iran’s ‘immediate release’ of charity worker

Boris Johnson demands ‘immediate release’ of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe during phone call with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani as PM says her ‘continued confinement remains completely unacceptable’ PM Boris Johnson spoke to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani this afternoon  Mr Johnson demanded the ‘immediate release’ of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe The PM said her ‘continued confinement remains completely unacceptable’  By … Read more

Boris Johnson demands ‘immediate release’ of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

Boris Johnson demands ‘immediate release’ of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe during phone call with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani as PM says her ‘continued confinement remains completely unacceptable’ PM Boris Johnson spoke to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani this afternoon  Mr Johnson demanded the ‘immediate release’ of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe The PM said her ‘continued confinement remains completely unacceptable’  By … Read more

Kylie Moore-Gilbert reveals Iran captors wanted to turn her into a spy and send her to America 

Australian academic Kylie-Moore Gilbert has claimed her Iranian captors repeatedly tried to turn her into a double agent and do their bidding across Europe and the US. Dr Moore-Gilbert, 33, was held in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison for 804 days after being arrested on spying charges when she tried to fly out of the city … Read more

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe sentence scheduled to end after five years

Source: PA April 3 2016: The mother-of-one is detained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard at Imam Khomeini airport after a holiday visit to Iran where she showed her daughter Gabriella to her parents. July 12 2016: Richard Ratcliffe, her husband, delivers letters to Downing Street for outgoing prime minister David Cameron and his replacement Theresa … Read more

Passenger plane hijacking is disrupted and stopped during flight over Iran 

Passenger plane hijacking is disrupted and stopped during flight over Iran The purported hijacking targeted an Iran Air Fokker 100 regional commercial jet It was heading from southwestern city of Ahvaz to northwestern city of Mashhad  Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard announced the incident on Friday Officals said authorities disrupted the attempt, but did not identify the hijacker  … Read more