Boris Johnson fails to access inner layers of Iran`s `Russian doll` | Patrick Wintour
(The Guardian Iran)

Foreign secretary did not get to speak to key decision-makers in Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case: the revolutionary courtsNot long before travelling to Tehran for two days of talks, Boris Johnson described Iran as resembling `one of those Russian dolls`, in the sense that there is a state within the outer democratic Iranian state, primarily run by the Revolutionary Guards.At one level, the bulk of his high-stakes talks were with the outer state of the president, Hassan Rouhani, and the foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif. But in his efforts to secure the release of the UK dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, it could be argued that he did not gain access to the inner state and revolutionary courts, the true decision-makers in her case. Continue reading...