British foreign secretary dismisses prisoner swap suggestion by Tehran as a ‘vile’ diplomatic tactic
British foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt arrives to at a service to mark Anzac Day at Westminster Abbey in London, the UK, April 25 2019. Picture: AFP/ DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS
In New York, Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday suggested a swap between Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who is in jail in Tehran for alleged sedition, and Negar Ghodskani, an Iranian woman held in Australia on a US extradition warrant. “The woman in jail in Australia is facing due process, a proper legal procedure, and she is alleged to have committed a very serious crime,” he told reporters in London. “Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is innocent — she has done nothing wrong.”
Zaghari-Ratcliffe was only one of numerous dual nationals from Western countries being held in Iran, Hunt said.
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