Foreign Office urged Richard Ratcliffe not to make ‘song and dance’, says MP

Tulip Siddiq said decision by Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband to be so public and vocal' had been vindicated

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Campaigners pushing for the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe were told by the Foreign Office not to make a song and dance" about her plight, according to an MP.

Labour MP Tulip Siddiq, whose Hampstead and Kilburn constituency was where Zaghari-Ratcliffe lived before she was detained in Iran, said the decision by Nazanin's husband, Richard Ratcliffe, to be so public and vocal" had been the right strategy.