{"value":{"id":1234939,"askingMemberId":259,"askingMember":null,"house":"Lords","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2020-09-16T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2020-09-30T00:00:00","uin":"HL8188","questionText":"To ask Her Majesty's Government when the Foreign Secretary last spoke directly to the Foreign Minister of Iran about the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe; and whether any such discussions included representations on (1) making her furlough from prison permanent, and (2) permitting her to return to the UK.","answeringBodyId":208,"answeringBodyName":"Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4210,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2020-10-01T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>It is positive that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe remains on furlough, but we continue to urge the Iranian Government to make her release permanent so she can return to her family in the UK. Iran bringing these new charges against Mrs Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is unacceptable. We welcome the deferral of this groundless court hearing. We have been consistently clear that she must not be returned to prison. We continue to raise her case at the most senior levels, and discuss it at every opportunity with our Iranian counterparts. The Foreign Secretary spoke twice with Foreign Minister Zarif in August. We raised her case again with the Iranian Ambassador to London on 22 September. Our Ambassador in Tehran consistently discusses all of our British dual-national detainees with the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1234939","method":"GET"}]}