UK's former top diplomat issues warning to British-Iranian nationals

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% :Tehran has detained a number of dual and foreign nationals in recent years, including British-Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was held in 2016 and released last year.
44% : Many cases show the Government does all that it can but right now it is not safe for British Iranian dual nationals to be in Iran."
42% : ord Simon McDonald, the UK's former top diplomat, has warned that it is not safe for British-Iranian dual nationals to be in Iran.
42% : Speaking to Times Radio on Monday, he said: "We've had Iran going through a very difficult period following the demonstrations that took place in that country, (with) many women coming out after Mahsa (Amini) was killed under police custody when she refused to wear the headscarf during the summer," he said.
39% : "So it's important to recognise where Iran is going to go, but very similar to Russia in a way, that we've not done enough to stand up to Iran, its proxy influence in Lebanon, in Syria, in Yemen, in Iraq and so forth.
38% : Lord McDonald, former Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "The situation of dual nationals detained by Iran is desperate.
35% : But the chairman of the Commons Defence Committee Tobias Ellwood has said the UK has not done enough to stand up to Iran.
32% : Iran has executed at least four people after convicting them of charges linked to the protests following internationally-criticised trials.

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