Boris Johnson ends Iran visit without agreement on jailed Briton
(The Guardian Iran)

Foreign Office declares visit to Tehran `worthwhile´ but no announcement made on Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeBoris Johnson, the UK foreign secretary, has ended his two-day visit to Iran without any announcement on the release of the British dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, but has agreed with President Rouhani that Britain and Iran wanted to make progress `on the removal of all obstacles in the Anglo-Iranian relationship`.The brief statement came after Johnson met Rouhani for an hour to discuss regional and bilateral issues including US and UK banking restrictions and UK concerns `about the consular cases of dual nationals`.Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a 38-year-old Iranian-British dual national who has been jailed in Iran since April 2016. She has been accused of attempting to orchestrate a `soft overthrow` of the Islamic Republic. She and her three-year-old daughter, Gabriella, were about to return to the UK from Iran after a family visit when she was arrested. Since then, she has spent most of her time in Evin prison in Tehran, separated from her daughter. Continue reading...