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I've been following this story since last year.
She was training journalists for the BBC's Media Action group.
Those journalists were arrested when they got back home and were jailed in 2014.
Back in 2016 she was arrested trying to leaving Iran and held on secret charges but it's thought that it's down to her training these Iranian journalists back in 2014.
Yes at the time she may well have just been just visiting family, not teaching or speaking to any of her former pupils.
However she was arrested because she had been teaching Iranians journalism.
I love that the fucking social media it jumping on the Boris is a cunt bandwagon without giving a shit before that this woman has been held for a year now for nothing more than journalism.
Maybe the regime that locks up people for thought crimes should be called cunts once in a while?
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She's in jail for a decade, the Iranians are a bit angrier, erm...
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Nothing he said to that Select Committee is new to the Iranians.
Fuck it's not even new to me.
She's being held as a political pawn in negotiations and to stop others from daring to train journalists.
She's in jail for as long as they want her in jail.
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What nous
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Not that they needed any excuse to do so anyway.
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Bit naive, this is the whole point of international diplomacy, its a subtle art that Borisconi is too self-absorbed to get and is wholly unsuited for. Her guilt or not or the rights and wrongs of the Iranian position might be in question...but Boris' suitability for the post is not.
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This isn't about his suitability it's about a point in fact.
She was training journalists.
Those journalists were imprisoned.
She was imprisoned on hidden charges most likely because she trained those journalists.
No matter who is in that post those details do not change.
All he did was to state the fact that she had trained them.
Was he supposed to keep quite and mislead the Select Committee?
I'm pretty sure that's against the rules.
Now people can use her situation to have a go at Boris or they can start getting angry that a British citizen is being held as a political prisoner.
Because they sure as hell were not a few days ago and she's been rotting there a bloody year.
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You’re being wilfully ignorant.
It’s a basic rule of diplomacy that if the government you’re dealing with are cheating, lying scumbags, if you’re after anything then you don’t publicly acknowledge that. The absolute very last thing you do is tell the truth, when the truth will see this womanr locked up for longer.
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Iran are playing a diplomatic game and have ceased on his slip, as any decent government, despotic or not, would do.
Boris made an unforced error, he didn't have to say what he said, while he can't lie he wasn't asked a direct question about it. He even says this himself "we have to be careful about this..." Regardless of it being just a diplomatic power play...he f***ed up.
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Weren't you paying attention? Toffs are the real enemy here.
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