Husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to meet UK foreign secretary
(The Guardian Iran)

After criticising Boris Johnson for failing to meet him, Richard Ratcliffe will see Dominic Raab to discuss his wife´s caseThe foreign secretary has agreed to meet the husband of a British-Iranian woman held in Tehran after it emerged that neither Dominic Raab nor the prime minister had done so since taking office, despite the latter claiming he would prioritise the issue during the Conservative leadership campaign.Richard Ratcliffe, whose wife Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was jailed for five years in Iran in 2016, criticised Boris Johnson on Monday, indicating that he believed the prime minister was not taking his wife´s case seriously. He revealed he had been offered no high-level meeting to discuss his wife´s plight since Johnson entered No 10, despite his recent claim to feel a `deep sense of anguish` over it. Raab proposed a meeting for 2 September within days. Continue reading...