Peter Black is right. Boris Johnson should resign or be fired after his misstatement to a Commons committee has increased the danger to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, currently held in Iran on what appear to be specious charges.
The Conservatives have dismal form in this area. In 1990, Mrs Thatcher did not lift a finger to save Farzad Bazoft from execution by the Saddam regime in Iraq. His friend, expatriate Scottish nurse Daphne Parish, narrowly escaped the same fate. Of course, the ex-CIA agent Saddam was "one of us" in those days.
[Later] In the Commons this afternoon, the Foreign Secretary belatedly stated the true position of the FO. He did not apologise nor admit that in his evidence to the committee he had taken the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's accusations on trust without checking the facts.
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