HIGH-PROFILE former Iranian prisoner Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has warned people not to be “naive” about the prospects of regime change in Iran.

British-Iranian dual national spoke hours after the Iranian government confirmed after US-Israeli strikes killed the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 86.

Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was falsely imprisoned in Iran for six years, said that she had dreaded planned strikes on Iran, as she hoped for peace.

Speaking at an event about Iran at Heath Street Baptist Church in north London on Sunday, she said: “This is the beginning of folding a regime which has been systematically abusing its own citizens, but it’s not the end of it.

“I think it’s very naive to think that by removing [Khamenei] things are just going to be amazing, but I also understand that people can be quite excited about such an incident.

“I’m a peace-seeker, so in my heart I want peace for the world and I don’t want war at all.

“That’s me, because there is collateral damage when there is war, when we are thinking of war a human being is often collateral damage.

“I think we are looking at a very uncertain future.

“We are looking at potentially, they are removing a lot of heads of states and people who are in the position of managing the military, some of the key components within the country, and as far as I know, they haven’t stopped doing so.”

Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe was jailed on false espionage charges in 2016 after visiting her family in Iran.

She and her husband Richard Ratcliffe took part in hunger strikes as they campaigned for Britain to strike a deal with Iran.