MPs claim Foreign Office ‘inaction’ on sanctioning Iranians for hostage-taking
by Patrick Wintour, Diplomatic Editor from World news | The Guardian on (#61NPA)
Officials involved in arrest and intimidation of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe named in Commons
The Foreign Office has failed to sanction key Iranians responsible for the arrest and intimidation of the British-Iranian dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe despite being passed their names in September, MPs have claimed.
Chris Bryant, a Labour member of the foreign affairs select committee, named Ameneh Sadat Zabihpour, a state TV journalist, and Hossein Taeb, the former head of intelligence in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), as part of a group of 10 Iranians who he said needed to be sanctioned for state hostage-taking. It is the first time the two names have been released.
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