Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

The money Iran had demanded has nothing whatsoever to do with the imprisoning of Iranian born National Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.

( As a dual national you cannot get diplomatic help from the British government or any other government when you are in the other country where you hold citizenship.)

EllanVannin, The £500million with interest is the Iranian State assets that was held by The Bank of England, at the time of the overthrow of the Shah. it was frozen by the UK government, As was £12bn of Libyan assets, so have been Iraq Assets/Libya/ South Sudan/ Afghanistan/ CAR, etc. etc

Quite naturally the Sovereign Iranian government has been pressurizing the Bank of England, to release their frozen assets and pay compound interest on assets held.

What are the odds of two women, being incarcerated at different times, both having neurological problems/ numbness/paralysis and lumps/ growths in their breast and stomach respectively?
Don't go to these countries if you're a known activist. It happens in Russia too.
It's a sorry state of affairs but their country their rules.
I hope it doesn't come to aught as her child needs her and she has the right to see a medic. She isn't (in this instance) asking for release, just some humanity.
I wish both women well.

Terrible thing to happen.

When I saw the thread title I was hoping that she had been released though sadly that is not the case. Our local news often reports on the case. Jeremy Hunt is trying hard to get her released.

I think that the US's treatment of Iran hasn't helped. I am sure that they lump us in with them.
Iran is a troublesome country so far as human rights are concerned but it was moving in the right election and, although I don't join in the hero worship of Obama, he was right on Iran. Progress was slow but was being made.
We can't treat a country as a pariah state, be an ally of a country that imposes sanctions on them without cause (not that we have a choice in being an ally of the US) and expect them to behave rationally in response.
I read an article by a man who had recently been released and he was objecting to the Foreign Office taking credit for his release as he had made a decision not to ask them for help as he thought that with relations as they currently are the involvement of the Foreign Office just makes Iran dig its heels in. His approach worked but it does put our government in a no win situation.
It is a sad case, as are many of the prisoners in their prisons wherever they are from, but it is a

Urmstongran I tend to think the same with many of these kind of cases but this one I'm not sure of. Because the woman is a British/Iranian I would say that it's because officials in Iran have been over-zealous in their thinking. Spying ? I don't think so. There's no reasoning with them.

No Urmstongran, you're not.

Am I the only one who thinks there’s more to this whole story than meets the eye?

It brings it home how lucky we all are. It’s unbearable what some people go through. My thoughts and prayers are with this lady.

A ransom of £500million with interest was the last demand from Iran in exchange for the woman's freedom. This was the back-end of last year. Some hope !

This is a terrible state of affairs as the longer it goes on the less likely it is that Iran will bow to any pressure from the UK .

What is Iran up to I ask myself and what will their next move be ?