Boris refusing to apologise for what he said, saying it had been misconstrued. He claimed he didn't say that she had been teaching journalism. He is such a liar. It must be in Hansard.
"In fact, Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a project manager with a charity and was in Iran to visit her family for Nowruz, the Persian New Year. She is not a journalist and has never trained them.
Let us be clear about this: Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe was told at the court hearing that Mr Johnson’s words were being used against her.
But today (November 7) giving his statement in the Commons, he absolutely refused to apologise for his blunder – not once, but many times.
He said he spoke to his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, and told Zarif that the government’s view is that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was just in Iran on holiday. He said that, when he spoke to the Commons foreign affairs committee last week, he was trying to make the point that, even if Zaghari-Ratcliffe was training journalists, that would not have justified her detention – but added: “I accept that my remarks could have been clearer in that respect.”
He was right – but only because his remarks last week were nothing like his claim about them today. He said: “When I look at what Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was doing, she was simply teaching people journalism, as I understand it.” He did not say her detention would not have been justified even if she was training journalists."
