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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says Iranian authorities forced her to sign false confession as condition of release

May 24, 2022 View Original Article
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    -98% Very Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    92% Very Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -13% Negative

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47% : The debt is for undelivered armored vehicles and tanks, originally ordered by Iran but canceled by the UK in response to the Iranian revolution of 1979, according to a research briefing published by the House of Commons Library.
46% : In a statement, a spokesperson for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: "Iran put Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe through a horrendous ordeal, right up to the moment she left the country.
40% : Read MoreA UK official told CNN on background that Zaghari Ratcliffe was asked to sign the document at the airport under the threat of being prevented from leaving Iran.
36% : Zaghari Ratcliffe told the BBC that when she met UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on May 13, he said her detention "was about the debt" that the UK government owed Iran.
36% : A UK official was present to help oversee Zaghari Ratcliffe's and fellow detained dual national Anoosheh Ashoori's departure from Iran.
35% : On the same day, the British government resolved a dispute with the Iranian government over a decades-old £400 million ($524 million) debt owed to Iran, which Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian denied was linked to the prisoner release.
32% : London (CNN)Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the dual British-Iranian citizen detained by Iran for nearly 6 years, said Iranian authorities forced her to sign a false confession as a condition of her release.

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