Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe “told to sign false confession” by UK government - BBC News

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has told the BBC that Iran forced her to sign a false confession before allowing her to fly home to the UK. She says she did so “under duress” in Iran in the presence of a British official. <br /><br />Her lawyer has written to the UK Foreign Secretary asking for an explanation of why she was “told to sign a false confession by her own government”. <br /><br />The British-Iranian national was freed by Iran in March 2022, along with fellow detainee Anoosheh Ashoori, six years after being arrested on spying charges.<br /><br />Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe says that the Iranian authorities would not let her board her plane home until she had signed the last-minute false confession.<br /><br />Huw Edwards presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Caroline Hawley.<br />