{"id":1389,"date":"2019-01-09T18:04:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T18:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2019-01-10T18:08:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T18:08:56","slug":"video-of-nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffes-arrest-shown-on-iranian-state-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=1389","title":{"rendered":"Video of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe&#8217;s arrest shown on Iranian state TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Broadcast comes as part of documentary accusing UK of trying to infiltrate Iran through BBC Persian channel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xcTNTplqmmo\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">2019-01-09 -The Guardian &#8211; Iranian state TV has for the first time broadcast images of the April 2016 arrest of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe\">Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe<\/a>\u00a0at Tehran airport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The pictures of her shocked face were shown during a lengthy TV documentary on what it claimed were the BBC\u2019s efforts to undermine the Iranian state by training reporters opposed to the regime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The broadcast comes as Zaghari-Ratcliffe, an Iranian-British dual national, is in dispute with prison authorities in Tehran over\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2019\/jan\/03\/zaghari-ratcliffe-to-go-on-hunger-strike-in-iranian-jail\">her access to doctors and medicine<\/a>\u00a0and says she will go on a three-day hunger strike. Some of her access to make phone calls to her husband, Richard, in London has also been restricted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the Commons this week, the shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, warned that Tehran was \u201cdigging its own diplomatic grave\u201d by refusing to release her. She pointed out that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/iran\">Iran<\/a>\u00a0needed Europe\u2019s diplomatic support as it faced a growing challenge from the US, including economic actions, and even the threat of a direct military challenge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UK government has been a stalwart backer of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, along with France and Germany, despite the opposition of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the footage, part of a documentary accusing the UK of trying to infiltrate Iran through the BBC Persian television channel, Zaghari-Ratcliffe is told she is not permitted to leave Iran and must go to a prosecutor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zaghari-Ratcliffe was found guilty of espionage charges and sentenced to five years in jail. She has sporadic access to her daughter, Gabriella, who was with her on a visit to her family at the time of her arrest. She spent her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/dec\/26\/nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe-spends-40th-birthday-in-iranian-jail\">40th birthday<\/a>, on Boxing Day, in prison.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iran has already published 2010 BBC payslips for Zaghari-Ratcliffe and claims she trained journalists through a secure online platform. Her family and the BBC have said that she worked briefly for the BBC\u2019s international development charity in an administrative position, and never had a role training journalists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BBC has also said that she never had a role at BBC Persian.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The documentary also shows footage of the former foreign secretary,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/boris\">Boris Johnson<\/a>, telling the foreign affairs select committee that Zaghari-Ratcliffe was training journalists, remarks he later clarified and withdrew.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is significant that Iranian authorities still believe Johnson let slip the truth in his committee appearance, underlining the diplomatic damage he inflicted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both the Iranian foreign ministry and justice ministry issued tough statements at the weekend, urging the UK not to try to interfere in the internal affairs of the Iranian judiciary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadcast comes as part of documentary accusing UK of trying to infiltrate Iran through BBC Persian channel 2019-01-09 -The Guardian &#8211; Iranian state TV has for the first time broadcast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[298],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-women-kids","tag-nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}