The decision escalates Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's case from a consular matter to a formal legal dispute between Britain and Iran. The British charity worker has been in prison in Tehran since 2016.
The decision escalates Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s case from a consular matter to a formal legal dispute between Britain and Iran and one that Jeremy Hunt, Foreign Secretary, said on Thursday was “not made lightly”.
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