What was on the agenda for British foreign secretary's Iran visit?
Boris Johnson becomes the first British foreign secretary to visit Iran since 2015.
Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson visited Iran on Dec. 10. Ahead of the trip, Johnson said that he would address British concerns over the imprisonment of dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was arrested and sentenced in 2016 to five years in prison.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who is employed by Thomson Reuters Foundation, was charged with plotting to overthrow the Iranian government, a charge Johnson addressed before his visit when he said, “She was simply teaching people journalism.” Zaghari-Ratcliffe's family and employer say she was in Iran for a vacation. Iran’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, Hamid Baeidinejad, downplayed that Johnson would address Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s case, tweeting Dec. 9 ahead of Johnson's trip, “There are a lot of speculations about the agenda of the visit of the UK Secretary Johnson to Tehran, but the two sides will surely best use of the time to discuss wide range of bilateral, regional and multilateral issues, particularly at this sensitive moment at the region.”
