(left to right) Roxanne Tahbaz, the daughter of Morad Tahbaz, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Richard Ratcliffe during a press conference hosted by their local MP Tulip Siddiq, in the Macmillan Room, Portcullis House, London, following her release from detention in Iran last week
NAZANIN ZAGHARI-RATCLIFFE called for the release of other dual nationals “unjustly” detained in Iran today.
Speaking publicly for the first time since her return home, the 43-year-old hit out at the British government for taking six years to secure her release from detention.
“What’s happened now should have happened six years ago. I shouldn’t have been in prison for six years,” she told a press conference.
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) welcomes demonstrations across Iran, which have put pressure upon the theocratic dictatorship, but warns against intervention by the United States to force Iran in a particular direction
Calls have been made for the return to Venezuela of a two-year-old girl currently being held in the US, after being separated from her family by immigration officials, reports SUSAN GREY