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But why now? And why did it take so long? - The Guardian (March 16, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori on way back to UK, Liz Truss confirms - The Guardian (March 16, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has had UK passport returned, says MP - The Guardian (March 15, 2022) Iranian ambassador to UK removed from post over hijab incident - The Guardian (February 27, 2022) Truss tells Iran she hopes UK will soon be able to repay £400m debt - The Guardian (February 15, 2022) Zaghari-Ratcliffe 'angry at her life being stolen' after deal for release collapses - The Guardian (February 13, 2022) BBC accuses Iran of escalating harassment of staff - BBC (February 10, 2022) Aras Amiri: British Council says jailed employee freed by Iran - BBC (January 12, 2022) Women stage global fast to pressure UK over Nazanin Zagari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (December 20, 2021) Iran says UK is discussing how to repay £400m debt - The Guardian (December 10, 2021) Britain and Israel to sign trade and defence deal - The Guardian (November 28, 2021 Don't mention UK's £400m debt to Iran in Commons, Zaghari-Ratcliffe's MP told - The Guardian (November 15, 2021 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband ending hunger strike after 21 days - BBC (November 13, 2021 UK tells Iran that sanctions prevent payment of £400m debt - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 Why an old £400m debt to Iran stands in way of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 'We should pay debt': Jeremy Hunt says £400m owed to Iran is not ransom money - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 After 17 days of hunger strike, I'm still trying to save Nazanin - The Guardian (November 9, 2021 Richard Ratcliffe on hunger strike: 'There's no plan to get Nazanin out' - The Guardian (November 5, 2021 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband begins new hunger strike in London - BBC (October 24, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe?s husband hits out at government handling of case - The Guardian (October 16, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: British-Iranian aid worker loses court appeal in Iran - BBC (October 16, 2021) RAF intelligence base linked to US drone strike on Iranian general Qassem Soleimani - The Guardian (October 2, 2021) Britain must repay £400m debt and lift sanctions, Iran tells Liz Truss - The Guardian (September 23, 2021) My dad, held hostage in Iran - BBC (September 20, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe campaign urges sanctions against 10 Iranians - The Guardian (September 19, 2021) UK ambassador angers Iran with 'insulting' embassy photo gaffe - The Guardian (August 12, 2021) UK condemns Iran's sentencing of British-Iranian national - Reuters (August 6, 2021) UK summons Iranian envoy over tanker attack - BBC (August 2, 2021) 'Highly likely' Iran was behind fatal oil tanker attack - Dominic Raab - The Guardian (August 1, 2021) Iranian hackers posed as British-based academic - BBC (July 13, 2021) Biden would not bar UK paying Iran debt to secure Nazanin's release - Antony Blinken - Evening Standard (May 6, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK and Iran in talks over debt but 'unlinked' to case - BBC (May 3, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran treatment 'amounts to torture', says Dominic Raab - BBC (May 2, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe sentenced to a year in Iran prison - BBC (April 26, 2021) Court hearing over UK's £400m tank deal debt to Iran postponed - The Guardian (April 19, 2021) Defence secretary says Britain must honour Iran debt linked to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case - Times Online (March 22, 2021) 'Hostage diplomacy' behind Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's Kafkaesque ordeal - The Guardian (March 14, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Tehran court on new charge - BBC (March 14, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe must be released 'permanently', says PM - BBC (March 8, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe released but faces new court date in Iran - BBC (March 7, 2021) Richard Ratcliffe still unsure if wife will be released on Sunday - The Guardian (March 6, 2021) Briton held in Iran 'completely shut off' after losing phone access - The Guardian (February 19, 2021) Kameel Ahmady: British-Iranian academic facing jail escapes Iran - BBC (February 3, 2021) Foreign Office tells Richard Ratcliffe to keep quiet as wife's release date nears - The Guardian (January 31, 2021) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK 'starting to look weak' over failure to protect citizens, says Hunt - The Guardian (December 29, 2020) 'Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a hostage: the government needs to call her that' - The Guardian (December 20, 2020) MPs say UK government strategy on Iran prisoners not working - The Guardian (December 15, 2020) British-Iranian academic sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran - The Guardian (December 13, 2020) Tehran exchanges Kylie Moore-Gilbert for three Iranians jailed abroad - The Guardian (November 25, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe avoids being returned to jail - The Guardian (November 2, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK expresses 'grave concern' over fresh court proceedings - The Guardian (October 29, 2020) Iran moves detained academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert back to Tehran prison - The Guardian (October 29, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to stand trial on fresh charges in Iran next week - The Guardian (October 28, 2020) Hopes for Kylie Moore-Gilbert after detained academic moved out of Iran's Qarchak prison - The Guardian (October 24, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Sentence served but no sign of freedom - Sky News (September 29, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe files report of Revolutionary Guards harassment - The Guardian (September 22, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe speaks of ordeal after trial postponement - The Guardian (September 13, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: New charge 'a political game', says husband - BBC (September 9, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe faces new charge, Iranian media reports - The Guardian (September 8, 2020) Will Britain Follow In America's Footsteps And Repay Iran For Undelivered Military Hardware? - Forbes (September 7, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK acknowledges debt owed to Iran over Shah's tank order - The Guardian (September 4, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert's every step being followed inside prison in Iran - The Guardian (September 2, 2020) UK delays Zaghari-Ratcliffe release for fear of offending Trump, lawyers claim - The Guardian (August 25, 2020) Mike Pompeo: 'I regret' Britain's Iran sanctions vote - Spectator (August 20, 2020) British spy's account sheds light on role in 1953 Iranian coup - The Guardian (August 17, 2020) Explanation of Vote on Non-proliferation (Iran) resolution - GOV.UK (August 14, 2020) Iran jails 'British spy': Former business associate of Tessa Jowell's husband - Daily Mail (August 11, 2020) Two Iranians sentenced to 10 years for spying - BBC (August 11, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert in good health in Iran with access to medical treatment and books, Dfat says - The Guardian (August 4, 2020) MI6, the coup in Iran that changed the Middle East, and the cover-up - The Guardian (August 2, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert: Lecturer jailed in Iran moved to remote prison - BBC (July 28, 2020) 'Radical change' needed for UK-Iran bilateral relations - Cranfield University PR (July 21, 2020) John Bolton: Boris Johnson 'playing Trump like a fiddle' - Politico (June 25, 2020) 1953 Iran coup: How a garbled message from 'Queen Elizabeth' bolstered the overthrow of Mosaddegh's government - The Independent (June 13, 2020) A message from 'Queen Elizabeth' to the shah played role in CIA 1953 coup in Iran, documentary says - NBC News (June 7, 2020) Revolutionary Guards block clemency for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (May 30, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to stay out of prison until Iran decides on fate - The Guardian (May 20, 2020) UK rejects plea for ambassador to visit Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Iran - The Guardian (May 17, 2020) Fears rise Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe may be returned to Iran jail - The Guardian (May 5, 2020) Threat to blow up besieged Iran embassy - archive, 1980 - The Guardian (May 1, 2020) In pictures: Iranian embassy siege in London - BBC (April 30, 2020) Iran extends Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's prison release by month - The Guardian (April 21, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe waiting to hear if she must return to prison - The Guardian (April 18, 2020) Iran temporarily frees British resident Aras Amiri on furlough - Amnesty - Reuters (April 9, 2020) Coronavirus relief workers appeal for release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (April 7, 2020) Iranian dual national Foroughi returns to UK, nine years after arrest - Reuters (April 1, 2020) INSTEX successfully concludes first transaction - GOV.UK (March 31, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe under consideration for clemency - The Guardian (March 29, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe's leave from prison to be extended by two weeks - The Guardian (March 28, 2020) UK presses US to ease Iran sanctions to help fight coronavirus - The Guardian (March 18, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe freed temporarily from Iranian prison - The Guardian (March 17, 2020) Iran's ambassador to UK reveals bilateral talks over £400m debt - The Guardian (March 15, 2020) UN experts demand Iran ceases harassing BBC Persian staff - BBC (March 11, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's health improves despite coronavirus fears - The Guardian (March 9, 2020) British ambassador returns to Iran after brief arrest last month - Reuters (February 6, 2020) Britain complicit in the crushing of Iran's Tudeh party - Qantara (February 5, 2020) Britain's Prince Charles wants to visit Iran: Sunday Times - Reuters (January 25, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband urges PM to be tough with Iran - The Guardian (January 23, 2020) The Zaghari-Ratcliffes' ordeal: a story of British arrogance, secret arms deals and Whitehall infighting - The Guardian (January 23, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: pay £400m debt in aid, urges husband - The Guardian (January 22, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: court hearing over £400m Iran debt may hasten release - The Guardian (January 21, 2020) How Britain helped Iran's Islamic regime destroy the left-wing opposition - Daily Maverick (January 21, 2020) Jailed British-Australian Kylie Moore-Gilbert rejected Iran's offer to work as a spy - The Guardian (January 20, 2020) Rob Macaire: Britain's ambassador to Iran heads back to UK - Sky News (January 15, 2020) Iran warns UK against 'any new mistake' after ambassador arrest - Sky News (January 14, 2020) Boris Johnson: PM urges Trump to come up with new Iran plan - BBC (January 14, 2020) UK summons Iran ambassador over diplomat's 'unacceptable' arrest - BBC (January 13, 2020) Iran regime 'at a crossroads', warns Raab - BBC (January 13, 2020) There's a chance for change in the Middle East and Britain has a role to play - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Dominic Raab warns Iran of 'pariah' status after ambassador arrest - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Iran summons UK ambassador amid row over his arrest - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Britain condemns Tehran's arrest of UK ambassador - BBC (January 12, 2020) UK ambassador arrested in Tehran - BBC (January 11, 2020) Boris Johnson urges Iran president to end military action - The Guardian (January 9, 2020) Iran attack: How much influence does UK have in US-Iran crisis? - BBC (January 8, 2020) Qasem Soleimani: PM 'will not lament' Iranian general's death - BBC (January 5, 2020) Boris Johnson: Qassem Suleimani was threat to all our interests - The Guardian (January 5, 2020) The Guardian view on Trump's war: UK goes from poodle to lapdog? - The Guardian (January 5, 2020) Royal Navy vessels sent to protect shipping in Strait of Hormuz - The Guardian (January 4, 2020) Boris Johnson's silence on Suleimani assassination is 'deafening' say critics - The Guardian (January 4, 2020) Foreign Office hardens Iran and Iraq travel advice - BBC (January 4, 2020) Revealed: David Miliband called off SAS strike on Iranian General Qassim Soleimani in 2007 - Telegraph (January 3, 2020) Qasem Soleimani: Boris Johnson not told about US airstrike - BBC (January 3, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Daughter of Briton jailed in Iran back in UK - BBC (October 11, 2019) Australian-UK blogger couple freed from Iran jail - BBC (October 5, 2019) Iranian spying charge 'preposterous', prisoner's wife says - BBC (September 27, 2019) Stena Impero: Iran 'still investigating' seized British tanker - BBC (September 25, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe must be released, Johnson tells Iran's president - BBC (September 24, 2019) Kylie Moore-Gilbert named as British-Australian academic held in Iran - BBC (September 14, 2019) Britain-Iran relationship caught up in mutual blame game - The Guardian (September 11, 2019) Iran 'convicts British-Iranian dual national of spying for Israel' - BBC (August 27, 2019) Aras Amiri: British Council worker jailed in Iran a 'bargaining chip' - BBC (August 21, 2019) Kameel Ahmady: British-Iranian academic 'arrested in Iran' - BBC (August 14, 2019) UK joins US in mission to protect oil tankers in Gulf - The Guardian (August 5, 2019) Iran ambassador's apparent olive branch could ease Gulf tensions - Sky News (July 31, 2019) Royal Marines used brute force, says tanker captain - BBC (July 30, 2019) Court ruling over tanks debt deals new blow to UK-Iran relations - The Guardian (July 26, 2019) Iran hints at ship swap with UK amid de-escalation efforts - The Guardian (July 24, 2019) Prime mover: Johnson and the UK-Iran crisis - ECFR (July 24, 2019) The 'Special' U.S.-U.K. Relationship is Bruised After Trump Officials Left U.K. Out of Iran Strike Planning - Time Magazine (July 23, 2019) Iran-UK tanker standoff: What is the next step for Britain? - DW (July 23, 2019) UK to seek European maritime mission to counter Iran's ' illegal acts of piracy' - The Guardian (July 22, 2019) Iran tanker seizure: May to chair Cobra meeting on crisis - BBC (July 22, 2019) The English Job by Jack Straw review - portrait of Iran's fixation with Britain - The Guardian (July 22, 2019) Jeremy Hunt under pressure to back plan for Gulf force as Iran digs in - The Guardian (July 21, 2019) Ministers 'considering freezing Iran assets' following tanker seizure - ITV (July 21, 2019) Tanker seizure: Jeremy Hunt urges Iran to release Stena Impero - BBC (July 20, 2019) UK to step up its military presence in Gulf amid crisis with Iran - The Guardian (July 12, 2019) Is the US nudging Britain into dangerous waters with Iran? - The Guardian (July 11, 2019) UK ships in Gulf on high alert after Royal Navy trains guns on Iranian vessels - The Guardian (July 11, 2019) Iranian boats 'tried to intercept British tanker' - BBC (July 11, 2019) Iran summons UK ambassador in tanker seizure row - BBC (July 4, 2019) The heedless drift towards war with Iran shames Britain - The Guardian (June 28, 2019) Will the UK's new prime minister take Trump's side on Iran? - Atlantic Council (June 23, 2019) Gulf of Oman: Iran protests to UK ambassador - BBC (June 16, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe begins new hunger strike - BBC (June 15, 2019) Aras Amiri: British Council names employee jailed by Iran - BBC (May 14, 2019) Iran 'jails British Council worker for spying for UK' - BBC (May 13, 2019) Iran accused of 'playing games' over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (April 27, 2019) Iranian woman in Australian jail drawn into Zaghari-Ratcliffe diplomatic dispute - The Guardian (April 25, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran offers prisoner swap - BBC (April 24, 2019) Iran rejects UK claim of diplomatic status for Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (March 8, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iranian-Briton to get diplomatic protection - BBC (March 7, 2019) Jeremy Hunt warns of Middle East 'first world war risk' on Iran visit - The Guardian (November 19, 2018) Hunt to appeal for release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe on Iran visit - The Guardian (November 18, 2018) Foreign Office advises dual UK-Iranian nationals against all but 'essential' travel to Iran - The Independent (September 19, 2018) US ambassador says UK should join Trump and put pressure on Iran - The Guardian (August 12, 2018) More people with UK links arrested in Iran - BBC (May 2, 2018) Abbas Edalat: Iran confirms arrest of British professor - BBC (April 29, 2018) BBC urges UN to act over harassment of journalists in Iran - The Guardian (March 11, 2018) British dual citizen sentenced to six-year jail term, Iran reveals - Reuters (March 11, 2018) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: question over delay in return of jailed British-Iranian - The Guardian (March 10, 2018) Hopes rise for release of Briton jailed in Iran after court hearing postponed - The Guardian (December 10, 2017) Johnson's talks on jailed Briton in Iran 'worthwhile' - BBC (December 10, 2017) Boris Johnson begins Iran talks over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (December 9, 2017) Britain preparing plan to transfer £400m to Iran as Boris Johnson vows to do everything to bring home Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Telegraph (November 15, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Government considers diplomatic protection - BBC (November 15, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case: Boris Johnson apologises over remarks - BBC (November 13, 2017) Boris Johnson to travel to US in bid to save Iran nuclear deal - The Guardian (November 2, 2017) Iran BBC complaint: UN urges Tehran to stop harassing staff - BBC (October 25, 2017) Iran to blame for cyber-attack on MPs' emails - British intelligence - The Guardian (October 13, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: More charges for mum in Iran - BBC (October 9, 2017) Tensions surface between UK and US over Iran nuclear deal - The Guardian (September 14, 2017) UK warned it needs new Middle East policy that does not rely on Trump - The Guardian (May 2, 2017) May refuses Netanyahu's call to impose new sanctions on Iran - The Guardian (February 6, 2017) Benjamin Netanyahu to press Theresa May for tougher line on Iran - The Guardian (February 5, 2017) Theresa May 'clear-eyed' over Iran threat - BBC (December 6, 2016) UK-Iranian mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe 'jailed on secret charges' - BBC (September 9, 2016) UK appoints first ambassador to Iran in five years - BBC (September 5, 2016) British Airways to resume direct flights to Iran - BBC (September 1, 2016) Iran accuses dual national of spying for British intelligence - BBC (August 16, 2016) May presses Iran over detained Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Reuters (August 9, 2016) Family of charity worker detained in Iran writes to foreign secretary - Press Association (July 26, 2016) Hopes for British-Iranian mother in jail in Iran - BBC (June 16, 2016) Iran accuses British mother, Nazanin Ratcliffe, of leading 'hostile network' to 'overthrow' regime - Telegraph (June 15, 2016) British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe detained for a month 'without charge' - BBC (May 9, 2016) Prince Charles 'plans' historic royal trip to Iran - The Independent (March 27, 2016) Iran and the UK: Bridging the Gulf - British Council (March 2016) Can Iran and the UK really bury the hatchet? - BBC (August 26, 2015) In Iran's eyes, Britain is still the 'old fox' - Telegraph (August 25, 2015) Philip Hammond declares new chapter with Iran in search for end to Syrian war - The Guardian (August 24, 2015) Iran-UK relations: 12 moments in a troubled history - The Guardian (August 23, 2015) Iran reopens embassy in London as Britain does the same in Tehran - The Guardian (August 23, 2015) British embassy in Tehran reopens four years after closure - BBC (August 23, 2015) Foreign Office relaxes Iran advice for British nationals - BBC (July 25, 2015) Tehran embassy re-opening will test troubled UK-Iran relations - The Guardian (July 17, 2015) UK hopes to reopen embassy in Iran by end of year, says Philip Hammond - The Guardian (July 15, 2015) Foreign Office 'did not stop Iraq making chemical weapons' - The Guardian (July 2, 2015) British-Iranian woman jailed over volleyball game sees charges dropped - The Guardian (April 2, 2015) Ghoncheh Ghavami: Charges dropped - but volleyball Briton must stay - The Independent (March 26, 2015) Volleyball woman Ghoncheh Ghavami out of Iran prison - BBC (November 23, 2014) Ghoncheh Ghavami's family devastated by year's jail sentence in Iran - video - The Guardian (November 3, 2014) Leaders of UK and Iran meet for first time since 1979 Islamic revolution - The Guardian (September 24, 2014) David Cameron to meet Iran leader over Isis campaign - The Guardian (September 22, 2014) UK to re-open Iran embassy says Hague - BBC (June 17, 2014) Tehran ready to offer cash for British embassy attack - but no apology - The Guardian (May 18, 2014) UK and Iran discuss re-opening embassies - Telegraph (April 28, 2014) UK and Iran agree to re-establish direct diplomatic relations - The Guardian (February 20, 2014) Iran's largest private bank sues UK government for $4bn damages - BBC (February 17, 2014) Khamenei says US 'wouldn't hesitate' to topple Iranian regime if it could - Reuters (February 9, 2014) Bank Mellat to serve UK government with damages claim of up to £1bn - The Guardian (February 4, 2014) Jack Straw 'optimistic' over Iran future after Tehran visit - BBC (January 10, 2014) Iran claims to have captured MI6 spy - BBC (December 14, 2013) Iranian envoy to make first UK visit - BBC (December 11, 2013) New UK envoy Ajay Sharma to make Iran visit - BBC (December 2, 2013) Cameron makes first call to Iran's Rouhani - BBC (November 19, 2013) UK and Iran name charges d'affaires - BBC (November 11, 2013) Britain and Iran pave way for reopening of London and Tehran embassies - The Guardian (October 8, 2013) UK open to improving London-Tehran ties, says William Hague - The Guardian (July 31, 2013) Labour: UK 'missing opportunity' to engage with Iran - BBC (July 26, 2013) UK not attending Iran president's inauguration - The Guardian (July 24, 2013) Supreme court quashes Iran bank sanctions and criticises secret hearings - The Guardian (June 19, 2013) Iran accuses Britain of operating spy ring to undermine elections - The Independent (June 3, 2013) Iran deputy speaker condemns 2011 attack on UK embassy - BBC (April 5, 2013) Britain was wrong to close Tehran embassy, says David Miliband - The Guardian (January 31, 2013) Iran military action not 'right course at this time', Downing Street says - The Guardian (October 26, 2012) Britain rejects US request to use UK bases in nuclear standoff with Iran - The Guardian (October 25, 2012) Prime Minister David Cameron calls on Israel not to launch unilateral attack on Iran - The Independent (October 15, 2012) Storming British embassy in Iran was not right, says supreme leader - The Guardian (August 7, 2012) UK defence chiefs prepare for conflict with Iran over nuclear programme - The Guardian (May 23, 2012) Flynt Leverett: Going to Tehran - WPSU (May 2, 2013) UK 'will keep up pressure on Iran' - BBC (April 17, 2012) Hague condemns Tehran for blocking Foreign Office website - BBC (March 18, 2012) Iran accused of intimidating BBC Persian staff - BBC (February 3, 2012) Iran blocks UK Foreign Office website - BBC (December 22, 2011) British 'most secret' invasion plans seized at Iran embassy - 70 years on - The Guardian (December 5, 2011) Iran diplomats to leave UK after Tehran embassy attack - BBC (December 2, 2011) Coup that colours Anglo-Iranian relations - The Guardian (December 1, 2011) UK to expel all Iranian diplomats over embassy attack - BBC (November 30, 2011) UK withdraws diplomatic staff from Iran after attack - BBC (November 30, 2011) Hague says Iran will face 'serious consequences' over embassy attack - The Guardian (November 29, 2011) UK warns Iran after embassy stormed - BBC (November 29, 2011) Iran protesters storm UK embassy in Tehran - BBC (November 29, 2011) Iran parliament votes to downgrade relations with UK - BBC (November 27, 2011) Iranian MPs approve bill to reduce British diplomatic ties with Tehran - The Guardian (November 23, 2011) UK military steps up plans for Iran attack amid fresh nuclear fears - The Guardian (November 2, 2011) Blair criticises Iran and Syria - BBC (September 8, 2011) David Cameron: Britain caused many of the world's problems - Telegraph (April 5, 2011) David Cameron plans link-up with US and France for new sanctions on Iran - The Guardian (February 23, 2011) WikiLeaks cables: UK blocked $60m arms deal over fears of Iran link - The Guardian (February 23, 2011) UK's Thatcher Appealed To Iran Over US Hostages - AP (December 30, 2010) WikiLeaks cables: Iranian TV channel faced UK sanction over jamming row - The Guardian (December 21, 2010) Iranian politicians call for UK ambassador recall - BBC (December 13, 2010) WikiLeaks cables: US pressured British regulator to act against Iranian banks - The Guardian (December 13, 2010) US embassy cables: Foreign office talks tough on Iran - The Guardian (December 13, 2010) Pope helped to free British sailors held by Iran, WikiLeaks cables show - The Guardian (December 10, 2010) Briton teaches US diplomats how to talk to Iran - The Guardian (November 28, 2010) Iran lays claim to British Museum's Cyrus Cylinder - The Guardian (September 15, 2010) Cyrus Cylinder loaned to Iran by British Museum - BBC (September 10, 2010) Sleeping with the Enemy: BP's Deals with Iran - Time Magazine (June 16, 2010) Tony Blair slated for Iran threat claim - Times Online (January 30, 2010) Iran looks again at links with Britain - The Independent (January 18, 2010) National archives: how Britain told deposed Shah of Iran to stay away - The Guardian (December 29, 2009) British sailors seized in Iran apologise for families' ordeal - The Guardian (December 4, 2009) Skipper of UK-crewed yacht admits Iran waters 'mistake' - BBC (December 2, 2009) UK yacht crew detained by Iranian navy - BBC (November 30, 2009) UK to press Iran on embassy staff - BBC (July 5, 2009) UK seeks Iran trial clarification - BBC (July 4, 2009) UK 'deeply concerned' at arrests - BBC (June 28, 2009) Britain and Iran's fraught history - BBC (June 24, 2009) Iran attacks against UK tap into centuries of suspicion - CNN (June 24, 2009) UK expels two Iranian diplomats - BBC (June 23, 2009) Relations between old adversaries Britain and Iran hit new low - The Guardian (June 23, 2009) BBC Bias and the Iranian Revolution - BBC (March 23, 2009) British Council in Iran 'illegal' - BBC (February 5, 2009) British fear US commander is beating the drum for Iran strikes - Telegraph (April 5, 2008) MPs urging direct US-Iran talks - BBC (March 2, 2008) British GCHQ eavesdropping played role in US intelligence U-turn on Iran - The Guardian (December 6, 2007) Iran accuses Britain of digging tunnel to ferry spies into embassy - The Guardian (August 11, 2007) Brown evades question over Iran - BBC (May 26, 2007) Iran to release British sailors tomorrow - The Guardian (April 4, 2007) A bitter legacy - The Guardian (March 30, 2007) Fury as Iran shows footage of captured sailors on television - The Guardian (March 29, 2007) UK/Iran bilateral links suspended - BBC (March 28, 2007) Iranians blame UK for all that goes awry - The Guardian (March 25, 2007) Sailors fall foul of emerging regional superpower - The Guardian (March 24, 2007) Foreign Office demands Tehran frees sailors - The Guardian (March 23, 2007) No plans to attack Iran - Blair - BBC (February 6, 2007) Iran a 'major threat', says Blair - BBC (December 12, 2006) Britain took part in mock Iran invasion - The Guardian (April 15, 2006) UK dismisses talk of Iran attack - BBC (April 9, 2006) Iran calls for UK Iraq pull-out - BBC (February 17, 2006) Iran accuses UK of bombing link - BBC (January 25, 2006) Blair rejects action against Iran and Syria - Telegraph (January 23, 2006) Blair threatens UN action on Iran - BBC (January 11, 2006) Iran nuclear move 'concerns UK' - BBC (January 10, 2006) Iran bombs link: retraction or non-retraction? - BBC (January 10, 2006) Was Blair right to warn Iran? - BBC (October 7, 2005) Blair warns Iran over Iraq bombs - BBC (October 6, 2005) Tehran students attack UK embassy - BBC (September 28, 2005) Military action against Iran 'inconceivable', says Straw - 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But why now? And why did it take so long? - The Guardian (March 16, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori on way back to UK, Liz Truss confirms - The Guardian (March 16, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has had UK passport returned, says MP - The Guardian (March 15, 2022) Iranian ambassador to UK removed from post over hijab incident - The Guardian (February 27, 2022) Truss tells Iran she hopes UK will soon be able to repay £400m debt - The Guardian (February 15, 2022) Zaghari-Ratcliffe 'angry at her life being stolen' after deal for release collapses - The Guardian (February 13, 2022) BBC accuses Iran of escalating harassment of staff - BBC (February 10, 2022) Aras Amiri: British Council says jailed employee freed by Iran - BBC (January 12, 2022) Women stage global fast to pressure UK over Nazanin Zagari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (December 20, 2021) Iran says UK is discussing how to repay £400m debt - The Guardian (December 10, 2021) Britain and Israel to sign trade and defence deal - The Guardian (November 28, 2021 Don't mention UK's £400m debt to Iran in Commons, Zaghari-Ratcliffe's MP told - The Guardian (November 15, 2021 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband ending hunger strike after 21 days - BBC (November 13, 2021 UK tells Iran that sanctions prevent payment of £400m debt - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 Why an old £400m debt to Iran stands in way of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 'We should pay debt': Jeremy Hunt says £400m owed to Iran is not ransom money - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 After 17 days of hunger strike, I'm still trying to save Nazanin - The Guardian (November 9, 2021 Richard Ratcliffe on hunger strike: 'There's no plan to get Nazanin out' - The Guardian (November 5, 2021 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband begins new hunger strike in London - BBC (October 24, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe?s husband hits out at government handling of case - The Guardian (October 16, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: British-Iranian aid worker loses court appeal in Iran - BBC (October 16, 2021) RAF intelligence base linked to US drone strike on Iranian general Qassem Soleimani - The Guardian (October 2, 2021) Britain must repay £400m debt and lift sanctions, Iran tells Liz Truss - The Guardian (September 23, 2021) My dad, held hostage in Iran - BBC (September 20, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe campaign urges sanctions against 10 Iranians - The Guardian (September 19, 2021) UK ambassador angers Iran with 'insulting' embassy photo gaffe - The Guardian (August 12, 2021) UK condemns Iran's sentencing of British-Iranian national - Reuters (August 6, 2021) UK summons Iranian envoy over tanker attack - BBC (August 2, 2021) 'Highly likely' Iran was behind fatal oil tanker attack - Dominic Raab - The Guardian (August 1, 2021) Iranian hackers posed as British-based academic - BBC (July 13, 2021) Biden would not bar UK paying Iran debt to secure Nazanin's release - Antony Blinken - Evening Standard (May 6, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK and Iran in talks over debt but 'unlinked' to case - BBC (May 3, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran treatment 'amounts to torture', says Dominic Raab - BBC (May 2, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe sentenced to a year in Iran prison - BBC (April 26, 2021) Court hearing over UK's £400m tank deal debt to Iran postponed - The Guardian (April 19, 2021) Defence secretary says Britain must honour Iran debt linked to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case - Times Online (March 22, 2021) 'Hostage diplomacy' behind Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's Kafkaesque ordeal - The Guardian (March 14, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Tehran court on new charge - BBC (March 14, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe must be released 'permanently', says PM - BBC (March 8, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe released but faces new court date in Iran - BBC (March 7, 2021) Richard Ratcliffe still unsure if wife will be released on Sunday - The Guardian (March 6, 2021) Briton held in Iran 'completely shut off' after losing phone access - The Guardian (February 19, 2021) Kameel Ahmady: British-Iranian academic facing jail escapes Iran - BBC (February 3, 2021) Foreign Office tells Richard Ratcliffe to keep quiet as wife's release date nears - The Guardian (January 31, 2021) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK 'starting to look weak' over failure to protect citizens, says Hunt - The Guardian (December 29, 2020) 'Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a hostage: the government needs to call her that' - The Guardian (December 20, 2020) MPs say UK government strategy on Iran prisoners not working - The Guardian (December 15, 2020) British-Iranian academic sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran - The Guardian (December 13, 2020) Tehran exchanges Kylie Moore-Gilbert for three Iranians jailed abroad - The Guardian (November 25, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe avoids being returned to jail - The Guardian (November 2, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK expresses 'grave concern' over fresh court proceedings - The Guardian (October 29, 2020) Iran moves detained academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert back to Tehran prison - The Guardian (October 29, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to stand trial on fresh charges in Iran next week - The Guardian (October 28, 2020) Hopes for Kylie Moore-Gilbert after detained academic moved out of Iran's Qarchak prison - The Guardian (October 24, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Sentence served but no sign of freedom - Sky News (September 29, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe files report of Revolutionary Guards harassment - The Guardian (September 22, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe speaks of ordeal after trial postponement - The Guardian (September 13, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: New charge 'a political game', says husband - BBC (September 9, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe faces new charge, Iranian media reports - The Guardian (September 8, 2020) Will Britain Follow In America's Footsteps And Repay Iran For Undelivered Military Hardware? - Forbes (September 7, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK acknowledges debt owed to Iran over Shah's tank order - The Guardian (September 4, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert's every step being followed inside prison in Iran - The Guardian (September 2, 2020) UK delays Zaghari-Ratcliffe release for fear of offending Trump, lawyers claim - The Guardian (August 25, 2020) Mike Pompeo: 'I regret' Britain's Iran sanctions vote - Spectator (August 20, 2020) British spy's account sheds light on role in 1953 Iranian coup - The Guardian (August 17, 2020) Explanation of Vote on Non-proliferation (Iran) resolution - GOV.UK (August 14, 2020) Iran jails 'British spy': Former business associate of Tessa Jowell's husband - Daily Mail (August 11, 2020) Two Iranians sentenced to 10 years for spying - BBC (August 11, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert in good health in Iran with access to medical treatment and books, Dfat says - The Guardian (August 4, 2020) MI6, the coup in Iran that changed the Middle East, and the cover-up - The Guardian (August 2, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert: Lecturer jailed in Iran moved to remote prison - BBC (July 28, 2020) 'Radical change' needed for UK-Iran bilateral relations - Cranfield University PR (July 21, 2020) John Bolton: Boris Johnson 'playing Trump like a fiddle' - Politico (June 25, 2020) 1953 Iran coup: How a garbled message from 'Queen Elizabeth' bolstered the overthrow of Mosaddegh's government - The Independent (June 13, 2020) A message from 'Queen Elizabeth' to the shah played role in CIA 1953 coup in Iran, documentary says - NBC News (June 7, 2020) Revolutionary Guards block clemency for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (May 30, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to stay out of prison until Iran decides on fate - The Guardian (May 20, 2020) UK rejects plea for ambassador to visit Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Iran - The Guardian (May 17, 2020) Fears rise Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe may be returned to Iran jail - The Guardian (May 5, 2020) Threat to blow up besieged Iran embassy - archive, 1980 - The Guardian (May 1, 2020) In pictures: Iranian embassy siege in London - BBC (April 30, 2020) Iran extends Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's prison release by month - The Guardian (April 21, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe waiting to hear if she must return to prison - The Guardian (April 18, 2020) Iran temporarily frees British resident Aras Amiri on furlough - Amnesty - Reuters (April 9, 2020) Coronavirus relief workers appeal for release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (April 7, 2020) Iranian dual national Foroughi returns to UK, nine years after arrest - Reuters (April 1, 2020) INSTEX successfully concludes first transaction - GOV.UK (March 31, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe under consideration for clemency - The Guardian (March 29, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe's leave from prison to be extended by two weeks - The Guardian (March 28, 2020) UK presses US to ease Iran sanctions to help fight coronavirus - The Guardian (March 18, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe freed temporarily from Iranian prison - The Guardian (March 17, 2020) Iran's ambassador to UK reveals bilateral talks over £400m debt - The Guardian (March 15, 2020) UN experts demand Iran ceases harassing BBC Persian staff - BBC (March 11, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's health improves despite coronavirus fears - The Guardian (March 9, 2020) British ambassador returns to Iran after brief arrest last month - Reuters (February 6, 2020) Britain complicit in the crushing of Iran's Tudeh party - Qantara (February 5, 2020) Britain's Prince Charles wants to visit Iran: Sunday Times - Reuters (January 25, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband urges PM to be tough with Iran - The Guardian (January 23, 2020) The Zaghari-Ratcliffes' ordeal: a story of British arrogance, secret arms deals and Whitehall infighting - The Guardian (January 23, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: pay £400m debt in aid, urges husband - The Guardian (January 22, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: court hearing over £400m Iran debt may hasten release - The Guardian (January 21, 2020) How Britain helped Iran's Islamic regime destroy the left-wing opposition - Daily Maverick (January 21, 2020) Jailed British-Australian Kylie Moore-Gilbert rejected Iran's offer to work as a spy - The Guardian (January 20, 2020) Rob Macaire: Britain's ambassador to Iran heads back to UK - Sky News (January 15, 2020) Iran warns UK against 'any new mistake' after ambassador arrest - Sky News (January 14, 2020) Boris Johnson: PM urges Trump to come up with new Iran plan - BBC (January 14, 2020) UK summons Iran ambassador over diplomat's 'unacceptable' arrest - BBC (January 13, 2020) Iran regime 'at a crossroads', warns Raab - BBC (January 13, 2020) There's a chance for change in the Middle East and Britain has a role to play - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Dominic Raab warns Iran of 'pariah' status after ambassador arrest - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Iran summons UK ambassador amid row over his arrest - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Britain condemns Tehran's arrest of UK ambassador - BBC (January 12, 2020) UK ambassador arrested in Tehran - BBC (January 11, 2020) Boris Johnson urges Iran president to end military action - The Guardian (January 9, 2020) Iran attack: How much influence does UK have in US-Iran crisis? - BBC (January 8, 2020) Qasem Soleimani: PM 'will not lament' Iranian general's death - BBC (January 5, 2020) Boris Johnson: Qassem Suleimani was threat to all our interests - The Guardian (January 5, 2020) The Guardian view on Trump's war: UK goes from poodle to lapdog? - 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BBC (September 14, 2019) Britain-Iran relationship caught up in mutual blame game - The Guardian (September 11, 2019) Iran 'convicts British-Iranian dual national of spying for Israel' - BBC (August 27, 2019) Aras Amiri: British Council worker jailed in Iran a 'bargaining chip' - BBC (August 21, 2019) Kameel Ahmady: British-Iranian academic 'arrested in Iran' - BBC (August 14, 2019) UK joins US in mission to protect oil tankers in Gulf - The Guardian (August 5, 2019) Iran ambassador's apparent olive branch could ease Gulf tensions - Sky News (July 31, 2019) Royal Marines used brute force, says tanker captain - BBC (July 30, 2019) Court ruling over tanks debt deals new blow to UK-Iran relations - The Guardian (July 26, 2019) Iran hints at ship swap with UK amid de-escalation efforts - The Guardian (July 24, 2019) Prime mover: Johnson and the UK-Iran crisis - ECFR (July 24, 2019) The 'Special' U.S.-U.K. Relationship is Bruised After Trump Officials Left U.K. Out of Iran Strike Planning - Time Magazine (July 23, 2019) Iran-UK tanker standoff: What is the next step for Britain? - DW (July 23, 2019) UK to seek European maritime mission to counter Iran's ' illegal acts of piracy' - The Guardian (July 22, 2019) Iran tanker seizure: May to chair Cobra meeting on crisis - BBC (July 22, 2019) The English Job by Jack Straw review - portrait of Iran's fixation with Britain - The Guardian (July 22, 2019) Jeremy Hunt under pressure to back plan for Gulf force as Iran digs in - The Guardian (July 21, 2019) Ministers 'considering freezing Iran assets' following tanker seizure - ITV (July 21, 2019) Tanker seizure: Jeremy Hunt urges Iran to release Stena Impero - BBC (July 20, 2019) UK to step up its military presence in Gulf amid crisis with Iran - The Guardian (July 12, 2019) Is the US nudging Britain into dangerous waters with Iran? - The Guardian (July 11, 2019) UK ships in Gulf on high alert after Royal Navy trains guns on Iranian vessels - The Guardian (July 11, 2019) Iranian boats 'tried to intercept British tanker' - BBC (July 11, 2019) Iran summons UK ambassador in tanker seizure row - BBC (July 4, 2019) The heedless drift towards war with Iran shames Britain - The Guardian (June 28, 2019) Will the UK's new prime minister take Trump's side on Iran? - Atlantic Council (June 23, 2019) Gulf of Oman: Iran protests to UK ambassador - BBC (June 16, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe begins new hunger strike - BBC (June 15, 2019) Aras Amiri: British Council names employee jailed by Iran - BBC (May 14, 2019) Iran 'jails British Council worker for spying for UK' - BBC (May 13, 2019) Iran accused of 'playing games' over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (April 27, 2019) Iranian woman in Australian jail drawn into Zaghari-Ratcliffe diplomatic dispute - The Guardian (April 25, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran offers prisoner swap - BBC (April 24, 2019) Iran rejects UK claim of diplomatic status for Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (March 8, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iranian-Briton to get diplomatic protection - BBC (March 7, 2019) Jeremy Hunt warns of Middle East 'first world war risk' on Iran visit - The Guardian (November 19, 2018) Hunt to appeal for release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe on Iran visit - The Guardian (November 18, 2018) Foreign Office advises dual UK-Iranian nationals against all but 'essential' travel to Iran - The Independent (September 19, 2018) US ambassador says UK should join Trump and put pressure on Iran - The Guardian (August 12, 2018) More people with UK links arrested in Iran - BBC (May 2, 2018) Abbas Edalat: Iran confirms arrest of British professor - BBC (April 29, 2018) BBC urges UN to act over harassment of journalists in Iran - The Guardian (March 11, 2018) British dual citizen sentenced to six-year jail term, Iran reveals - Reuters (March 11, 2018) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: question over delay in return of jailed British-Iranian - The Guardian (March 10, 2018) Hopes rise for release of Briton jailed in Iran after court hearing postponed - The Guardian (December 10, 2017) Johnson's talks on jailed Briton in Iran 'worthwhile' - BBC (December 10, 2017) Boris Johnson begins Iran talks over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (December 9, 2017) Britain preparing plan to transfer £400m to Iran as Boris Johnson vows to do everything to bring home Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Telegraph (November 15, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Government considers diplomatic protection - BBC (November 15, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case: Boris Johnson apologises over remarks - BBC (November 13, 2017) Boris Johnson to travel to US in bid to save Iran nuclear deal - The Guardian (November 2, 2017) Iran BBC complaint: UN urges Tehran to stop harassing staff - BBC (October 25, 2017) Iran to blame for cyber-attack on MPs' emails - British intelligence - The Guardian (October 13, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: More charges for mum in Iran - BBC (October 9, 2017) Tensions surface between UK and US over Iran nuclear deal - The Guardian (September 14, 2017) UK warned it needs new Middle East policy that does not rely on Trump - The Guardian (May 2, 2017) May refuses Netanyahu's call to impose new sanctions on Iran - The Guardian (February 6, 2017) Benjamin Netanyahu to press Theresa May for tougher line on Iran - The Guardian (February 5, 2017) Theresa May 'clear-eyed' over Iran threat - BBC (December 6, 2016) UK-Iranian mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe 'jailed on secret charges' - BBC (September 9, 2016) UK appoints first ambassador to Iran in five years - BBC (September 5, 2016) British Airways to resume direct flights to Iran - BBC (September 1, 2016) Iran accuses dual national of spying for British intelligence - BBC (August 16, 2016) May presses Iran over detained Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Reuters (August 9, 2016) Family of charity worker detained in Iran writes to foreign secretary - Press Association (July 26, 2016) Hopes for British-Iranian mother in jail in Iran - BBC (June 16, 2016) Iran accuses British mother, Nazanin Ratcliffe, of leading 'hostile network' to 'overthrow' regime - Telegraph (June 15, 2016) British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe detained for a month 'without charge' - BBC (May 9, 2016) Prince Charles 'plans' historic royal trip to Iran - The Independent (March 27, 2016) Iran and the UK: Bridging the Gulf - British Council (March 2016) Can Iran and the UK really bury the hatchet? - BBC (August 26, 2015) In Iran's eyes, Britain is still the 'old fox' - Telegraph (August 25, 2015) Philip Hammond declares new chapter with Iran in search for end to Syrian war - The Guardian (August 24, 2015) Iran-UK relations: 12 moments in a troubled history - The Guardian (August 23, 2015) Iran reopens embassy in London as Britain does the same in Tehran - The Guardian (August 23, 2015) British embassy in Tehran reopens four years after closure - BBC (August 23, 2015) Foreign Office relaxes Iran advice for British nationals - BBC (July 25, 2015) Tehran embassy re-opening will test troubled UK-Iran relations - The Guardian (July 17, 2015) UK hopes to reopen embassy in Iran by end of year, says Philip Hammond - The Guardian (July 15, 2015) Foreign Office 'did not stop Iraq making chemical weapons' - The Guardian (July 2, 2015) British-Iranian woman jailed over volleyball game sees charges dropped - The Guardian (April 2, 2015) Ghoncheh Ghavami: Charges dropped - but volleyball Briton must stay - The Independent (March 26, 2015) Volleyball woman Ghoncheh Ghavami out of Iran prison - BBC (November 23, 2014) Ghoncheh Ghavami's family devastated by year's jail sentence in Iran - video - The Guardian (November 3, 2014) Leaders of UK and Iran meet for first time since 1979 Islamic revolution - The Guardian (September 24, 2014) David Cameron to meet Iran leader over Isis campaign - The Guardian (September 22, 2014) UK to re-open Iran embassy says Hague - BBC (June 17, 2014) Tehran ready to offer cash for British embassy attack - but no apology - The Guardian (May 18, 2014) UK and Iran discuss re-opening embassies - Telegraph (April 28, 2014) UK and Iran agree to re-establish direct diplomatic relations - The Guardian (February 20, 2014) Iran's largest private bank sues UK government for $4bn damages - BBC (February 17, 2014) Khamenei says US 'wouldn't hesitate' to topple Iranian regime if it could - Reuters (February 9, 2014) Bank Mellat to serve UK government with damages claim of up to £1bn - The Guardian (February 4, 2014) Jack Straw 'optimistic' over Iran future after Tehran visit - BBC (January 10, 2014) Iran claims to have captured MI6 spy - BBC (December 14, 2013) Iranian envoy to make first UK visit - BBC (December 11, 2013) New UK envoy Ajay Sharma to make Iran visit - BBC (December 2, 2013) Cameron makes first call to Iran's Rouhani - BBC (November 19, 2013) UK and Iran name charges d'affaires - BBC (November 11, 2013) Britain and Iran pave way for reopening of London and Tehran embassies - The Guardian (October 8, 2013) UK open to improving London-Tehran ties, says William Hague - The Guardian (July 31, 2013) Labour: UK 'missing opportunity' to engage with Iran - BBC (July 26, 2013) UK not attending Iran president's inauguration - The Guardian (July 24, 2013) Supreme court quashes Iran bank sanctions and criticises secret hearings - The Guardian (June 19, 2013) Iran accuses Britain of operating spy ring to undermine elections - The Independent (June 3, 2013) Iran deputy speaker condemns 2011 attack on UK embassy - BBC (April 5, 2013) Britain was wrong to close Tehran embassy, says David Miliband - The Guardian (January 31, 2013) Iran military action not 'right course at this time', Downing Street says - The Guardian (October 26, 2012) Britain rejects US request to use UK bases in nuclear standoff with Iran - The Guardian (October 25, 2012) Prime Minister David Cameron calls on Israel not to launch unilateral attack on Iran - The Independent (October 15, 2012) Storming British embassy in Iran was not right, says supreme leader - The Guardian (August 7, 2012) UK defence chiefs prepare for conflict with Iran over nuclear programme - The Guardian (May 23, 2012) Flynt Leverett: Going to Tehran - WPSU (May 2, 2013) UK 'will keep up pressure on Iran' - BBC (April 17, 2012) Hague condemns Tehran for blocking Foreign Office website - 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And why did it take so long? - The Guardian (March 16, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori on way back to UK, Liz Truss confirms - The Guardian (March 16, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has had UK passport returned, says MP - The Guardian (March 15, 2022) Iranian ambassador to UK removed from post over hijab incident - The Guardian (February 27, 2022) Truss tells Iran she hopes UK will soon be able to repay £400m debt - The Guardian (February 15, 2022) Zaghari-Ratcliffe 'angry at her life being stolen' after deal for release collapses - The Guardian (February 13, 2022) BBC accuses Iran of escalating harassment of staff - BBC (February 10, 2022) Aras Amiri: British Council says jailed employee freed by Iran - BBC (January 12, 2022) Women stage global fast to pressure UK over Nazanin Zagari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (December 20, 2021) Iran says UK is discussing how to repay £400m debt - The Guardian (December 10, 2021) Britain and Israel to sign trade and defence deal - The Guardian (November 28, 2021 Don't mention UK's £400m debt to Iran in Commons, Zaghari-Ratcliffe's MP told - The Guardian (November 15, 2021 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband ending hunger strike after 21 days - BBC (November 13, 2021 UK tells Iran that sanctions prevent payment of £400m debt - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 Why an old £400m debt to Iran stands in way of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 'We should pay debt': Jeremy Hunt says £400m owed to Iran is not ransom money - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 After 17 days of hunger strike, I'm still trying to save Nazanin - The Guardian (November 9, 2021 Richard Ratcliffe on hunger strike: 'There's no plan to get Nazanin out' - The Guardian (November 5, 2021 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband begins new hunger strike in London - BBC (October 24, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe?s husband hits out at government handling of case - The Guardian (October 16, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: British-Iranian aid worker loses court appeal in Iran - BBC (October 16, 2021) RAF intelligence base linked to US drone strike on Iranian general Qassem Soleimani - The Guardian (October 2, 2021) Britain must repay £400m debt and lift sanctions, Iran tells Liz Truss - The Guardian (September 23, 2021) My dad, held hostage in Iran - BBC (September 20, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe campaign urges sanctions against 10 Iranians - The Guardian (September 19, 2021) UK ambassador angers Iran with 'insulting' embassy photo gaffe - The Guardian (August 12, 2021) UK condemns Iran's sentencing of British-Iranian national - Reuters (August 6, 2021) UK summons Iranian envoy over tanker attack - BBC (August 2, 2021) 'Highly likely' Iran was behind fatal oil tanker attack - Dominic Raab - The Guardian (August 1, 2021) Iranian hackers posed as British-based academic - BBC (July 13, 2021) Biden would not bar UK paying Iran debt to secure Nazanin's release - Antony Blinken - Evening Standard (May 6, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK and Iran in talks over debt but 'unlinked' to case - 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BBC (February 3, 2021) Foreign Office tells Richard Ratcliffe to keep quiet as wife's release date nears - The Guardian (January 31, 2021) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK 'starting to look weak' over failure to protect citizens, says Hunt - The Guardian (December 29, 2020) 'Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a hostage: the government needs to call her that' - The Guardian (December 20, 2020) MPs say UK government strategy on Iran prisoners not working - The Guardian (December 15, 2020) British-Iranian academic sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran - The Guardian (December 13, 2020) Tehran exchanges Kylie Moore-Gilbert for three Iranians jailed abroad - The Guardian (November 25, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe avoids being returned to jail - The Guardian (November 2, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK expresses 'grave concern' over fresh court proceedings - The Guardian (October 29, 2020) Iran moves detained academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert back to Tehran prison - The Guardian (October 29, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to stand trial on fresh charges in Iran next week - 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BBC (September 14, 2019) Britain-Iran relationship caught up in mutual blame game - The Guardian (September 11, 2019) Iran 'convicts British-Iranian dual national of spying for Israel' - BBC (August 27, 2019) Aras Amiri: British Council worker jailed in Iran a 'bargaining chip' - BBC (August 21, 2019) Kameel Ahmady: British-Iranian academic 'arrested in Iran' - BBC (August 14, 2019) UK joins US in mission to protect oil tankers in Gulf - The Guardian (August 5, 2019) Iran ambassador's apparent olive branch could ease Gulf tensions - Sky News (July 31, 2019) Royal Marines used brute force, says tanker captain - BBC (July 30, 2019) Court ruling over tanks debt deals new blow to UK-Iran relations - The Guardian (July 26, 2019) Iran hints at ship swap with UK amid de-escalation efforts - The Guardian (July 24, 2019) Prime mover: Johnson and the UK-Iran crisis - ECFR (July 24, 2019) The 'Special' U.S.-U.K. Relationship is Bruised After Trump Officials Left U.K. Out of Iran Strike Planning - Time Magazine (July 23, 2019) Iran-UK tanker standoff: What is the next step for Britain? - DW (July 23, 2019) UK to seek European maritime mission to counter Iran's ' illegal acts of piracy' - The Guardian (July 22, 2019) Iran tanker seizure: May to chair Cobra meeting on crisis - BBC (July 22, 2019) The English Job by Jack Straw review - portrait of Iran's fixation with Britain - The Guardian (July 22, 2019) Jeremy Hunt under pressure to back plan for Gulf force as Iran digs in - The Guardian (July 21, 2019) Ministers 'considering freezing Iran assets' following tanker seizure - ITV (July 21, 2019) Tanker seizure: Jeremy Hunt urges Iran to release Stena Impero - BBC (July 20, 2019) UK to step up its military presence in Gulf amid crisis with Iran - The Guardian (July 12, 2019) Is the US nudging Britain into dangerous waters with Iran? - The Guardian (July 11, 2019) UK ships in Gulf on high alert after Royal Navy trains guns on Iranian vessels - The Guardian (July 11, 2019) Iranian boats 'tried to intercept British tanker' - BBC (July 11, 2019) Iran summons UK ambassador in tanker seizure row - BBC (July 4, 2019) The heedless drift towards war with Iran shames Britain - The Guardian (June 28, 2019) Will the UK's new prime minister take Trump's side on Iran? - Atlantic Council (June 23, 2019) Gulf of Oman: Iran protests to UK ambassador - BBC (June 16, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe begins new hunger strike - BBC (June 15, 2019) Aras Amiri: British Council names employee jailed by Iran - BBC (May 14, 2019) Iran 'jails British Council worker for spying for UK' - BBC (May 13, 2019) Iran accused of 'playing games' over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (April 27, 2019) Iranian woman in Australian jail drawn into Zaghari-Ratcliffe diplomatic dispute - The Guardian (April 25, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran offers prisoner swap - BBC (April 24, 2019) Iran rejects UK claim of diplomatic status for Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (March 8, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iranian-Briton to get diplomatic protection - BBC (March 7, 2019) Jeremy Hunt warns of Middle East 'first world war risk' on Iran visit - The Guardian (November 19, 2018) Hunt to appeal for release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe on Iran visit - The Guardian (November 18, 2018) Foreign Office advises dual UK-Iranian nationals against all but 'essential' travel to Iran - The Independent (September 19, 2018) US ambassador says UK should join Trump and put pressure on Iran - The Guardian (August 12, 2018) More people with UK links arrested in Iran - BBC (May 2, 2018) Abbas Edalat: Iran confirms arrest of British professor - BBC (April 29, 2018) BBC urges UN to act over harassment of journalists in Iran - The Guardian (March 11, 2018) British dual citizen sentenced to six-year jail term, Iran reveals - Reuters (March 11, 2018) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: question over delay in return of jailed British-Iranian - The Guardian (March 10, 2018) Hopes rise for release of Briton jailed in Iran after court hearing postponed - The Guardian (December 10, 2017) Johnson's talks on jailed Briton in Iran 'worthwhile' - BBC (December 10, 2017) Boris Johnson begins Iran talks over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (December 9, 2017) Britain preparing plan to transfer £400m to Iran as Boris Johnson vows to do everything to bring home Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Telegraph (November 15, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Government considers diplomatic protection - BBC (November 15, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case: Boris Johnson apologises over remarks - BBC (November 13, 2017) Boris Johnson to travel to US in bid to save Iran nuclear deal - The Guardian (November 2, 2017) Iran BBC complaint: UN urges Tehran to stop harassing staff - BBC (October 25, 2017) Iran to blame for cyber-attack on MPs' emails - British intelligence - The Guardian (October 13, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: More charges for mum in Iran - BBC (October 9, 2017) Tensions surface between UK and US over Iran nuclear deal - The Guardian (September 14, 2017) UK warned it needs new Middle East policy that does not rely on Trump - The Guardian (May 2, 2017) May refuses Netanyahu's call to impose new sanctions on Iran - The Guardian (February 6, 2017) Benjamin Netanyahu to press Theresa May for tougher line on Iran - The Guardian (February 5, 2017) Theresa May 'clear-eyed' over Iran threat - BBC (December 6, 2016) UK-Iranian mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe 'jailed on secret charges' - BBC (September 9, 2016) UK appoints first ambassador to Iran in five years - BBC (September 5, 2016) British Airways to resume direct flights to Iran - BBC (September 1, 2016) Iran accuses dual national of spying for British intelligence - BBC (August 16, 2016) May presses Iran over detained Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Reuters (August 9, 2016) Family of charity worker detained in Iran writes to foreign secretary - Press Association (July 26, 2016) Hopes for British-Iranian mother in jail in Iran - BBC (June 16, 2016) Iran accuses British mother, Nazanin Ratcliffe, of leading 'hostile network' to 'overthrow' regime - Telegraph (June 15, 2016) British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe detained for a month 'without charge' - BBC (May 9, 2016) Prince Charles 'plans' historic royal trip to Iran - The Independent (March 27, 2016) Iran and the UK: Bridging the Gulf - British Council (March 2016) Can Iran and the UK really bury the hatchet? - BBC (August 26, 2015) In Iran's eyes, Britain is still the 'old fox' - Telegraph (August 25, 2015) Philip Hammond declares new chapter with Iran in search for end to Syrian war - The Guardian (August 24, 2015) Iran-UK relations: 12 moments in a troubled history - The Guardian (August 23, 2015) Iran reopens embassy in London as Britain does the same in Tehran - The Guardian (August 23, 2015) British embassy in Tehran reopens four years after closure - BBC (August 23, 2015) Foreign Office relaxes Iran advice for British nationals - BBC (July 25, 2015) Tehran embassy re-opening will test troubled UK-Iran relations - The Guardian (July 17, 2015) UK hopes to reopen embassy in Iran by end of year, says Philip Hammond - The Guardian (July 15, 2015) Foreign Office 'did not stop Iraq making chemical weapons' - The Guardian (July 2, 2015) British-Iranian woman jailed over volleyball game sees charges dropped - The Guardian (April 2, 2015) Ghoncheh Ghavami: Charges dropped - but volleyball Briton must stay - The Independent (March 26, 2015) Volleyball woman Ghoncheh Ghavami out of Iran prison - BBC (November 23, 2014) Ghoncheh Ghavami's family devastated by year's jail sentence in Iran - video - The Guardian (November 3, 2014) Leaders of UK and Iran meet for first time since 1979 Islamic revolution - The Guardian (September 24, 2014) David Cameron to meet Iran leader over Isis campaign - The Guardian (September 22, 2014) UK to re-open Iran embassy says Hague - BBC (June 17, 2014) Tehran ready to offer cash for British embassy attack - but no apology - The Guardian (May 18, 2014) UK and Iran discuss re-opening embassies - Telegraph (April 28, 2014) UK and Iran agree to re-establish direct diplomatic relations - The Guardian (February 20, 2014) Iran's largest private bank sues UK government for $4bn damages - BBC (February 17, 2014) Khamenei says US 'wouldn't hesitate' to topple Iranian regime if it could - Reuters (February 9, 2014) Bank Mellat to serve UK government with damages claim of up to £1bn - The Guardian (February 4, 2014) Jack Straw 'optimistic' over Iran future after Tehran visit - BBC (January 10, 2014) Iran claims to have captured MI6 spy - BBC (December 14, 2013) Iranian envoy to make first UK visit - BBC (December 11, 2013) New UK envoy Ajay Sharma to make Iran visit - BBC (December 2, 2013) Cameron makes first call to Iran's Rouhani - BBC (November 19, 2013) UK and Iran name charges d'affaires - BBC (November 11, 2013) Britain and Iran pave way for reopening of London and Tehran embassies - The Guardian (October 8, 2013) UK open to improving London-Tehran ties, says William Hague - The Guardian (July 31, 2013) Labour: UK 'missing opportunity' to engage with Iran - BBC (July 26, 2013) UK not attending Iran president's inauguration - The Guardian (July 24, 2013) Supreme court quashes Iran bank sanctions and criticises secret hearings - The Guardian (June 19, 2013) Iran accuses Britain of operating spy ring to undermine elections - The Independent (June 3, 2013) Iran deputy speaker condemns 2011 attack on UK embassy - BBC (April 5, 2013) Britain was wrong to close Tehran embassy, says David Miliband - The Guardian (January 31, 2013) Iran military action not 'right course at this time', Downing Street says - The Guardian (October 26, 2012) Britain rejects US request to use UK bases in nuclear standoff with Iran - The Guardian (October 25, 2012) Prime Minister David Cameron calls on Israel not to launch unilateral attack on Iran - The Independent (October 15, 2012) Storming British embassy in Iran was not right, says supreme leader - The Guardian (August 7, 2012) UK defence chiefs prepare for conflict with Iran over nuclear programme - The Guardian (May 23, 2012) Flynt Leverett: Going to Tehran - WPSU (May 2, 2013) UK 'will keep up pressure on Iran' - BBC (April 17, 2012) Hague condemns Tehran for blocking Foreign Office website - BBC (March 18, 2012) Iran accused of intimidating BBC Persian staff - BBC (February 3, 2012) Iran blocks UK Foreign Office website - BBC (December 22, 2011) British 'most secret' invasion plans seized at Iran embassy - 70 years on - The Guardian (December 5, 2011) Iran diplomats to leave UK after Tehran embassy attack - BBC (December 2, 2011) Coup that colours Anglo-Iranian relations - The Guardian (December 1, 2011) UK to expel all Iranian diplomats over embassy attack - BBC (November 30, 2011) UK withdraws diplomatic staff from Iran after attack - BBC (November 30, 2011) Hague says Iran will face 'serious consequences' over embassy attack - The Guardian (November 29, 2011) UK warns Iran after embassy stormed - BBC (November 29, 2011) Iran protesters storm UK embassy in Tehran - BBC (November 29, 2011) Iran parliament votes to downgrade relations with UK - BBC (November 27, 2011) Iranian MPs approve bill to reduce British diplomatic ties with Tehran - The Guardian (November 23, 2011) UK military steps up plans for Iran attack amid fresh nuclear fears - The Guardian (November 2, 2011) Blair criticises Iran and Syria - BBC (September 8, 2011) David Cameron: Britain caused many of the world's problems - Telegraph (April 5, 2011) David Cameron plans link-up with US and France for new sanctions on Iran - The Guardian (February 23, 2011) WikiLeaks cables: UK blocked $60m arms deal over fears of Iran link - The Guardian (February 23, 2011) UK's Thatcher Appealed To Iran Over US Hostages - AP (December 30, 2010) WikiLeaks cables: Iranian TV channel faced UK sanction over jamming row - The Guardian (December 21, 2010) Iranian politicians call for UK ambassador recall - BBC (December 13, 2010) WikiLeaks cables: US pressured British regulator to act against Iranian banks - The Guardian (December 13, 2010) US embassy cables: Foreign office talks tough on Iran - The Guardian (December 13, 2010) Pope helped to free British sailors held by Iran, WikiLeaks cables show - The Guardian (December 10, 2010) Briton teaches US diplomats how to talk to Iran - The Guardian (November 28, 2010) Iran lays claim to British Museum's Cyrus Cylinder - The Guardian (September 15, 2010) Cyrus Cylinder loaned to Iran by British Museum - BBC (September 10, 2010) Sleeping with the Enemy: BP's Deals with Iran - Time Magazine (June 16, 2010) Tony Blair slated for Iran threat claim - Times Online (January 30, 2010) Iran looks again at links with Britain - The Independent (January 18, 2010) National archives: how Britain told deposed Shah of Iran to stay away - The Guardian (December 29, 2009) British sailors seized in Iran apologise for families' ordeal - The Guardian (December 4, 2009) Skipper of UK-crewed yacht admits Iran waters 'mistake' - BBC (December 2, 2009) UK yacht crew detained by Iranian navy - BBC (November 30, 2009) UK to press Iran on embassy staff - BBC (July 5, 2009) UK seeks Iran trial clarification - BBC (July 4, 2009) UK 'deeply concerned' at arrests - BBC (June 28, 2009) Britain and Iran's fraught history - BBC (June 24, 2009) Iran attacks against UK tap into centuries of suspicion - CNN (June 24, 2009) UK expels two Iranian diplomats - BBC (June 23, 2009) Relations between old adversaries Britain and Iran hit new low - The Guardian (June 23, 2009) BBC Bias and the Iranian Revolution - BBC (March 23, 2009) British Council in Iran 'illegal' - BBC (February 5, 2009) British fear US commander is beating the drum for Iran strikes - Telegraph (April 5, 2008) MPs urging direct US-Iran talks - BBC (March 2, 2008) British GCHQ eavesdropping played role in US intelligence U-turn on Iran - The Guardian (December 6, 2007) Iran accuses Britain of digging tunnel to ferry spies into embassy - The Guardian (August 11, 2007) Brown evades question over Iran - BBC (May 26, 2007) Iran to release British sailors tomorrow - The Guardian (April 4, 2007) A bitter legacy - The Guardian (March 30, 2007) Fury as Iran shows footage of captured sailors on television - The Guardian (March 29, 2007) UK/Iran bilateral links suspended - BBC (March 28, 2007) Iranians blame UK for all that goes awry - The Guardian (March 25, 2007) Sailors fall foul of emerging regional superpower - The Guardian (March 24, 2007) Foreign Office demands Tehran frees sailors - The Guardian (March 23, 2007) No plans to attack Iran - Blair - BBC (February 6, 2007) Iran a 'major threat', says Blair - BBC (December 12, 2006) Britain took part in mock Iran invasion - The Guardian (April 15, 2006) UK dismisses talk of Iran attack - BBC (April 9, 2006) Iran calls for UK Iraq pull-out - BBC (February 17, 2006) Iran accuses UK of bombing link - BBC (January 25, 2006) Blair rejects action against Iran and Syria - Telegraph (January 23, 2006) Blair threatens UN action on Iran - BBC (January 11, 2006) Iran nuclear move 'concerns UK' - BBC (January 10, 2006) Iran bombs link: retraction or non-retraction? - BBC (January 10, 2006) Was Blair right to warn Iran? - BBC (October 7, 2005) Blair warns Iran over Iraq bombs - BBC (October 6, 2005) Tehran students attack UK embassy - BBC (September 28, 2005) Military action against Iran 'inconceivable', says Straw - The Guardian (September 28, 2005) Lib Dems challenge Blair to spell out Iran plans - The Guardian (April 23, 2005) Iran must beware of 'cunning' Britain in nuclear talks, says cleric - AFP (February 4, 2005) Can Straw tread softly while US turns its eye on Iran? - The Guardian (January 28, 2005) Straw emollient on Iran rift after US talks - The Guardian (January 25, 2005) BP chief's remarks enrage Iran - The Guardian (January 25, 2005) U.S.: British Foreign Secretary Says U.S. Committed To Diplomatic Approach Toward Iran - RFE (January 25, 2005) Straw flies to US for talks on Iran - The Guardian (January 24, 2005) Britain outlines case against attack on Iran: report - AFP (January 23, 2005) Straw: war on Iran 'inconceivable'- The Guardian (November 5, 2004) Straw defends diplomacy with Iran - BBC (July 4, 2004) Attack Iran, US chief ordered British - Telegraph (June 30, 2004) We must support Iran's evolution - The Guardian (June 27, 2004) Iran frees eight British sailors - The Guardian (June 25, 2004) Talks resume on crew held in Iran - BBC (June 24, 2004) Iran parades captured and blindfolded sailors on TV The - Guardian (June 23, 2004) Delicate UK-Iran ties under strain - BBC (June 21, 2004) HRH visits Iran to see the devastation of the Bam Earthquake (Feb. 15, 2004) Charles's goodwill visit to Iran - BBC (February 9, 2004) Prince Charles tours quake-hit Bam - The Guardian (February 9, 2004) UK refuses to extradite Iranian - BBC (November 13, 2003) Downturn in British-Iran relations is par for the course - AFP (September 16, 2003) Analysis: Iran's UK dilemma - BBC (September 3, 2003) Truck smashes into UK's Iran embassy - BBC (April 1, 2003) Britain's dirty secret - The Guardian (March 6, 2003) Blair tries to woo Iran into anti-Saddam pact - Telegraph (January 7, 2003) Iran rejects ambassador as 'MI6 agent' - The Guardian (February 8, 2002) Iran's love-hate relationship with the UK - BBC (September 29, 2001) Royal to-do over 'undignified festivities' - The Guardian (August 15, 2001) Iranian hardliners accuse Britain of fomenting revolt - 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But why now? And why did it take so long? - The Guardian (March 16, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori on way back to UK, Liz Truss confirms - The Guardian (March 16, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has had UK passport returned, says MP - The Guardian (March 15, 2022) Iranian ambassador to UK removed from post over hijab incident - The Guardian (February 27, 2022) Truss tells Iran she hopes UK will soon be able to repay £400m debt - The Guardian (February 15, 2022) Zaghari-Ratcliffe 'angry at her life being stolen' after deal for release collapses - The Guardian (February 13, 2022) BBC accuses Iran of escalating harassment of staff - BBC (February 10, 2022) Aras Amiri: British Council says jailed employee freed by Iran - BBC (January 12, 2022) Women stage global fast to pressure UK over Nazanin Zagari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (December 20, 2021) Iran says UK is discussing how to repay £400m debt - The Guardian (December 10, 2021) Britain and Israel to sign trade and defence deal - The Guardian (November 28, 2021 Don't mention UK's £400m debt to Iran in Commons, Zaghari-Ratcliffe's MP told - The Guardian (November 15, 2021 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband ending hunger strike after 21 days - BBC (November 13, 2021 UK tells Iran that sanctions prevent payment of £400m debt - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 Why an old £400m debt to Iran stands in way of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 'We should pay debt': Jeremy Hunt says £400m owed to Iran is not ransom money - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 After 17 days of hunger strike, I'm still trying to save Nazanin - The Guardian (November 9, 2021 Richard Ratcliffe on hunger strike: 'There's no plan to get Nazanin out' - The Guardian (November 5, 2021 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband begins new hunger strike in London - BBC (October 24, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe?s husband hits out at government handling of case - The Guardian (October 16, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: British-Iranian aid worker loses court appeal in Iran - BBC (October 16, 2021) RAF intelligence base linked to US drone strike on Iranian general Qassem Soleimani - The Guardian (October 2, 2021) Britain must repay £400m debt and lift sanctions, Iran tells Liz Truss - The Guardian (September 23, 2021) My dad, held hostage in Iran - BBC (September 20, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe campaign urges sanctions against 10 Iranians - The Guardian (September 19, 2021) UK ambassador angers Iran with 'insulting' embassy photo gaffe - The Guardian (August 12, 2021) UK condemns Iran's sentencing of British-Iranian national - Reuters (August 6, 2021) UK summons Iranian envoy over tanker attack - BBC (August 2, 2021) 'Highly likely' Iran was behind fatal oil tanker attack - Dominic Raab - The Guardian (August 1, 2021) Iranian hackers posed as British-based academic - BBC (July 13, 2021) Biden would not bar UK paying Iran debt to secure Nazanin's release - Antony Blinken - Evening Standard (May 6, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK and Iran in talks over debt but 'unlinked' to case - BBC (May 3, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran treatment 'amounts to torture', says Dominic Raab - BBC (May 2, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe sentenced to a year in Iran prison - BBC (April 26, 2021) Court hearing over UK's £400m tank deal debt to Iran postponed - The Guardian (April 19, 2021) Defence secretary says Britain must honour Iran debt linked to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case - Times Online (March 22, 2021) 'Hostage diplomacy' behind Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's Kafkaesque ordeal - The Guardian (March 14, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Tehran court on new charge - BBC (March 14, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe must be released 'permanently', says PM - BBC (March 8, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe released but faces new court date in Iran - BBC (March 7, 2021) Richard Ratcliffe still unsure if wife will be released on Sunday - The Guardian (March 6, 2021) Briton held in Iran 'completely shut off' after losing phone access - The Guardian (February 19, 2021) Kameel Ahmady: British-Iranian academic facing jail escapes Iran - BBC (February 3, 2021) Foreign Office tells Richard Ratcliffe to keep quiet as wife's release date nears - The Guardian (January 31, 2021) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK 'starting to look weak' over failure to protect citizens, says Hunt - The Guardian (December 29, 2020) 'Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a hostage: the government needs to call her that' - The Guardian (December 20, 2020) MPs say UK government strategy on Iran prisoners not working - The Guardian (December 15, 2020) British-Iranian academic sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran - The Guardian (December 13, 2020) Tehran exchanges Kylie Moore-Gilbert for three Iranians jailed abroad - The Guardian (November 25, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe avoids being returned to jail - The Guardian (November 2, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK expresses 'grave concern' over fresh court proceedings - The Guardian (October 29, 2020) Iran moves detained academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert back to Tehran prison - The Guardian (October 29, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to stand trial on fresh charges in Iran next week - The Guardian (October 28, 2020) Hopes for Kylie Moore-Gilbert after detained academic moved out of Iran's Qarchak prison - The Guardian (October 24, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Sentence served but no sign of freedom - Sky News (September 29, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe files report of Revolutionary Guards harassment - The Guardian (September 22, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe speaks of ordeal after trial postponement - The Guardian (September 13, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: New charge 'a political game', says husband - BBC (September 9, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe faces new charge, Iranian media reports - The Guardian (September 8, 2020) Will Britain Follow In America's Footsteps And Repay Iran For Undelivered Military Hardware? - Forbes (September 7, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK acknowledges debt owed to Iran over Shah's tank order - The Guardian (September 4, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert's every step being followed inside prison in Iran - The Guardian (September 2, 2020) UK delays Zaghari-Ratcliffe release for fear of offending Trump, lawyers claim - The Guardian (August 25, 2020) Mike Pompeo: 'I regret' Britain's Iran sanctions vote - Spectator (August 20, 2020) British spy's account sheds light on role in 1953 Iranian coup - The Guardian (August 17, 2020) Explanation of Vote on Non-proliferation (Iran) resolution - GOV.UK (August 14, 2020) Iran jails 'British spy': Former business associate of Tessa Jowell's husband - Daily Mail (August 11, 2020) Two Iranians sentenced to 10 years for spying - BBC (August 11, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert in good health in Iran with access to medical treatment and books, Dfat says - The Guardian (August 4, 2020) MI6, the coup in Iran that changed the Middle East, and the cover-up - The Guardian (August 2, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert: Lecturer jailed in Iran moved to remote prison - BBC (July 28, 2020) 'Radical change' needed for UK-Iran bilateral relations - Cranfield University PR (July 21, 2020) John Bolton: Boris Johnson 'playing Trump like a fiddle' - Politico (June 25, 2020) 1953 Iran coup: How a garbled message from 'Queen Elizabeth' bolstered the overthrow of Mosaddegh's government - The Independent (June 13, 2020) A message from 'Queen Elizabeth' to the shah played role in CIA 1953 coup in Iran, documentary says - NBC News (June 7, 2020) Revolutionary Guards block clemency for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (May 30, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to stay out of prison until Iran decides on fate - The Guardian (May 20, 2020) UK rejects plea for ambassador to visit Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Iran - The Guardian (May 17, 2020) Fears rise Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe may be returned to Iran jail - The Guardian (May 5, 2020) Threat to blow up besieged Iran embassy - archive, 1980 - The Guardian (May 1, 2020) In pictures: Iranian embassy siege in London - BBC (April 30, 2020) Iran extends Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's prison release by month - The Guardian (April 21, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe waiting to hear if she must return to prison - The Guardian (April 18, 2020) Iran temporarily frees British resident Aras Amiri on furlough - Amnesty - Reuters (April 9, 2020) Coronavirus relief workers appeal for release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (April 7, 2020) Iranian dual national Foroughi returns to UK, nine years after arrest - Reuters (April 1, 2020) INSTEX successfully concludes first transaction - GOV.UK (March 31, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe under consideration for clemency - The Guardian (March 29, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe's leave from prison to be extended by two weeks - The Guardian (March 28, 2020) UK presses US to ease Iran sanctions to help fight coronavirus - The Guardian (March 18, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe freed temporarily from Iranian prison - The Guardian (March 17, 2020) Iran's ambassador to UK reveals bilateral talks over £400m debt - The Guardian (March 15, 2020) UN experts demand Iran ceases harassing BBC Persian staff - BBC (March 11, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's health improves despite coronavirus fears - The Guardian (March 9, 2020) British ambassador returns to Iran after brief arrest last month - Reuters (February 6, 2020) Britain complicit in the crushing of Iran's Tudeh party - Qantara (February 5, 2020) Britain's Prince Charles wants to visit Iran: Sunday Times - Reuters (January 25, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband urges PM to be tough with Iran - The Guardian (January 23, 2020) The Zaghari-Ratcliffes' ordeal: a story of British arrogance, secret arms deals and Whitehall infighting - The Guardian (January 23, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: pay £400m debt in aid, urges husband - The Guardian (January 22, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: court hearing over £400m Iran debt may hasten release - The Guardian (January 21, 2020) How Britain helped Iran's Islamic regime destroy the left-wing opposition - Daily Maverick (January 21, 2020) Jailed British-Australian Kylie Moore-Gilbert rejected Iran's offer to work as a spy - The Guardian (January 20, 2020) Rob Macaire: Britain's ambassador to Iran heads back to UK - Sky News (January 15, 2020) Iran warns UK against 'any new mistake' after ambassador arrest - Sky News (January 14, 2020) Boris Johnson: PM urges Trump to come up with new Iran plan - BBC (January 14, 2020) UK summons Iran ambassador over diplomat's 'unacceptable' arrest - BBC (January 13, 2020) Iran regime 'at a crossroads', warns Raab - BBC (January 13, 2020) There's a chance for change in the Middle East and Britain has a role to play - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Dominic Raab warns Iran of 'pariah' status after ambassador arrest - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Iran summons UK ambassador amid row over his arrest - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Britain condemns Tehran's arrest of UK ambassador - BBC (January 12, 2020) UK ambassador arrested in Tehran - BBC (January 11, 2020) Boris Johnson urges Iran president to end military action - The Guardian (January 9, 2020) Iran attack: How much influence does UK have in US-Iran crisis? - BBC (January 8, 2020) Qasem Soleimani: PM 'will not lament' Iranian general's death - BBC (January 5, 2020) Boris Johnson: Qassem Suleimani was threat to all our interests - The Guardian (January 5, 2020) The Guardian view on Trump's war: UK goes from poodle to lapdog? - The Guardian (January 5, 2020) Royal Navy vessels sent to protect shipping in Strait of Hormuz - The Guardian (January 4, 2020) Boris Johnson's silence on Suleimani assassination is 'deafening' say critics - The Guardian (January 4, 2020) Foreign Office hardens Iran and Iraq travel advice - BBC (January 4, 2020) Revealed: David Miliband called off SAS strike on Iranian General Qassim Soleimani in 2007 - Telegraph (January 3, 2020) Qasem Soleimani: Boris Johnson not told about US airstrike - BBC (January 3, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Daughter of Briton jailed in Iran back in UK - BBC (October 11, 2019) Australian-UK blogger couple freed from Iran jail - BBC (October 5, 2019) Iranian spying charge 'preposterous', prisoner's wife says - BBC (September 27, 2019) Stena Impero: Iran 'still investigating' seized British tanker - BBC (September 25, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe must be released, Johnson tells Iran's president - BBC (September 24, 2019) Kylie Moore-Gilbert named as British-Australian academic held in Iran - BBC (September 14, 2019) Britain-Iran relationship caught up in mutual blame game - The Guardian (September 11, 2019) Iran 'convicts British-Iranian dual national of spying for Israel' - BBC (August 27, 2019) Aras Amiri: British Council worker jailed in Iran a 'bargaining chip' - BBC (August 21, 2019) Kameel Ahmady: British-Iranian academic 'arrested in Iran' - BBC (August 14, 2019) UK joins US in mission to protect oil tankers in Gulf - The Guardian (August 5, 2019) Iran ambassador's apparent olive branch could ease Gulf tensions - Sky News (July 31, 2019) Royal Marines used brute force, says tanker captain - BBC (July 30, 2019) Court ruling over tanks debt deals new blow to UK-Iran relations - The Guardian (July 26, 2019) Iran hints at ship swap with UK amid de-escalation efforts - The Guardian (July 24, 2019) Prime mover: Johnson and the UK-Iran crisis - ECFR (July 24, 2019) The 'Special' U.S.-U.K. Relationship is Bruised After Trump Officials Left U.K. Out of Iran Strike Planning - Time Magazine (July 23, 2019) Iran-UK tanker standoff: What is the next step for Britain? - DW (July 23, 2019) UK to seek European maritime mission to counter Iran's ' illegal acts of piracy' - The Guardian (July 22, 2019) Iran tanker seizure: May to chair Cobra meeting on crisis - BBC (July 22, 2019) The English Job by Jack Straw review - portrait of Iran's fixation with Britain - The Guardian (July 22, 2019) Jeremy Hunt under pressure to back plan for Gulf force as Iran digs in - The Guardian (July 21, 2019) Ministers 'considering freezing Iran assets' following tanker seizure - ITV (July 21, 2019) Tanker seizure: Jeremy Hunt urges Iran to release Stena Impero - BBC (July 20, 2019) UK to step up its military presence in Gulf amid crisis with Iran - The Guardian (July 12, 2019) Is the US nudging Britain into dangerous waters with Iran? - The Guardian (July 11, 2019) UK ships in Gulf on high alert after Royal Navy trains guns on Iranian vessels - The Guardian (July 11, 2019) Iranian boats 'tried to intercept British tanker' - BBC (July 11, 2019) Iran summons UK ambassador in tanker seizure row - BBC (July 4, 2019) The heedless drift towards war with Iran shames Britain - The Guardian (June 28, 2019) Will the UK's new prime minister take Trump's side on Iran? - Atlantic Council (June 23, 2019) Gulf of Oman: Iran protests to UK ambassador - BBC (June 16, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe begins new hunger strike - BBC (June 15, 2019) Aras Amiri: British Council names employee jailed by Iran - BBC (May 14, 2019) Iran 'jails British Council worker for spying for UK' - BBC (May 13, 2019) Iran accused of 'playing games' over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (April 27, 2019) Iranian woman in Australian jail drawn into Zaghari-Ratcliffe diplomatic dispute - The Guardian (April 25, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran offers prisoner swap - BBC (April 24, 2019) Iran rejects UK claim of diplomatic status for Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (March 8, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iranian-Briton to get diplomatic protection - BBC (March 7, 2019) Jeremy Hunt warns of Middle East 'first world war risk' on Iran visit - The Guardian (November 19, 2018) Hunt to appeal for release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe on Iran visit - The Guardian (November 18, 2018) Foreign Office advises dual UK-Iranian nationals against all but 'essential' travel to Iran - The Independent (September 19, 2018) US ambassador says UK should join Trump and put pressure on Iran - The Guardian (August 12, 2018) More people with UK links arrested in Iran - BBC (May 2, 2018) Abbas Edalat: Iran confirms arrest of British professor - BBC (April 29, 2018) BBC urges UN to act over harassment of journalists in Iran - The Guardian (March 11, 2018) British dual citizen sentenced to six-year jail term, Iran reveals - Reuters (March 11, 2018) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: question over delay in return of jailed British-Iranian - The Guardian (March 10, 2018) Hopes rise for release of Briton jailed in Iran after court hearing postponed - The Guardian (December 10, 2017) Johnson's talks on jailed Briton in Iran 'worthwhile' - BBC (December 10, 2017) Boris Johnson begins Iran talks over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (December 9, 2017) Britain preparing plan to transfer £400m to Iran as Boris Johnson vows to do everything to bring home Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Telegraph (November 15, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Government considers diplomatic protection - BBC (November 15, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case: Boris Johnson apologises over remarks - BBC (November 13, 2017) Boris Johnson to travel to US in bid to save Iran nuclear deal - The Guardian (November 2, 2017) Iran BBC complaint: UN urges Tehran to stop harassing staff - BBC (October 25, 2017) Iran to blame for cyber-attack on MPs' emails - British intelligence - The Guardian (October 13, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: More charges for mum in Iran - BBC (October 9, 2017) Tensions surface between UK and US over Iran nuclear deal - The Guardian (September 14, 2017) UK warned it needs new Middle East policy that does not rely on Trump - The Guardian (May 2, 2017) May refuses Netanyahu's call to impose new sanctions on Iran - The Guardian (February 6, 2017) Benjamin Netanyahu to press Theresa May for tougher line on Iran - The Guardian (February 5, 2017) Theresa May 'clear-eyed' over Iran threat - BBC (December 6, 2016) UK-Iranian mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe 'jailed on secret charges' - BBC (September 9, 2016) UK appoints first ambassador to Iran in five years - BBC (September 5, 2016) British Airways to resume direct flights to Iran - BBC (September 1, 2016) Iran accuses dual national of spying for British intelligence - BBC (August 16, 2016) May presses Iran over detained Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Reuters (August 9, 2016) Family of charity worker detained in Iran writes to foreign secretary - Press Association (July 26, 2016) Hopes for British-Iranian mother in jail in Iran - BBC (June 16, 2016) Iran accuses British mother, Nazanin Ratcliffe, of leading 'hostile network' to 'overthrow' regime - Telegraph (June 15, 2016) British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe detained for a month 'without charge' - BBC (May 9, 2016) Prince Charles 'plans' historic royal trip to Iran - The Independent (March 27, 2016) Iran and the UK: Bridging the Gulf - British Council (March 2016) Can Iran and the UK really bury the hatchet? - BBC (August 26, 2015) In Iran's eyes, Britain is still the 'old fox' - Telegraph (August 25, 2015) Philip Hammond declares new chapter with Iran in search for end to Syrian war - The Guardian (August 24, 2015) Iran-UK relations: 12 moments in a troubled history - The Guardian (August 23, 2015) Iran reopens embassy in London as Britain does the same in Tehran - The Guardian (August 23, 2015) British embassy in Tehran reopens four years after closure - BBC (August 23, 2015) Foreign Office relaxes Iran advice for British nationals - BBC (July 25, 2015) Tehran embassy re-opening will test troubled UK-Iran relations - The Guardian (July 17, 2015) UK hopes to reopen embassy in Iran by end of year, says Philip Hammond - The Guardian (July 15, 2015) Foreign Office 'did not stop Iraq making chemical weapons' - The Guardian (July 2, 2015) British-Iranian woman jailed over volleyball game sees charges dropped - The Guardian (April 2, 2015) Ghoncheh Ghavami: Charges dropped - but volleyball Briton must stay - The Independent (March 26, 2015) Volleyball woman Ghoncheh Ghavami out of Iran prison - BBC (November 23, 2014) Ghoncheh Ghavami's family devastated by year's jail sentence in Iran - video - The Guardian (November 3, 2014) Leaders of UK and Iran meet for first time since 1979 Islamic revolution - The Guardian (September 24, 2014) David Cameron to meet Iran leader over Isis campaign - The Guardian (September 22, 2014) UK to re-open Iran embassy says Hague - BBC (June 17, 2014) Tehran ready to offer cash for British embassy attack - but no apology - The Guardian (May 18, 2014) UK and Iran discuss re-opening embassies - Telegraph (April 28, 2014) UK and Iran agree to re-establish direct diplomatic relations - The Guardian (February 20, 2014) Iran's largest private bank sues UK government for $4bn damages - BBC (February 17, 2014) Khamenei says US 'wouldn't hesitate' to topple Iranian regime if it could - Reuters (February 9, 2014) Bank Mellat to serve UK government with damages claim of up to £1bn - The Guardian (February 4, 2014) Jack Straw 'optimistic' over Iran future after Tehran visit - BBC (January 10, 2014) Iran claims to have captured MI6 spy - BBC (December 14, 2013) Iranian envoy to make first UK visit - BBC (December 11, 2013) New UK envoy Ajay Sharma to make Iran visit - BBC (December 2, 2013) Cameron makes first call to Iran's Rouhani - BBC (November 19, 2013) UK and Iran name charges d'affaires - BBC (November 11, 2013) Britain and Iran pave way for reopening of London and Tehran embassies - The Guardian (October 8, 2013) UK open to improving London-Tehran ties, says William Hague - The Guardian (July 31, 2013) Labour: UK 'missing opportunity' to engage with Iran - BBC (July 26, 2013) UK not attending Iran president's inauguration - The Guardian (July 24, 2013) Supreme court quashes Iran bank sanctions and criticises secret hearings - The Guardian (June 19, 2013) Iran accuses Britain of operating spy ring to undermine elections - The Independent (June 3, 2013) Iran deputy speaker condemns 2011 attack on UK embassy - BBC (April 5, 2013) Britain was wrong to close Tehran embassy, says David Miliband - The Guardian (January 31, 2013) Iran military action not 'right course at this time', Downing Street says - The Guardian (October 26, 2012) Britain rejects US request to use UK bases in nuclear standoff with Iran - The Guardian (October 25, 2012) Prime Minister David Cameron calls on Israel not to launch unilateral attack on Iran - The Independent (October 15, 2012) Storming British embassy in Iran was not right, says supreme leader - The Guardian (August 7, 2012) UK defence chiefs prepare for conflict with Iran over nuclear programme - The Guardian (May 23, 2012) Flynt Leverett: Going to Tehran - WPSU (May 2, 2013) UK 'will keep up pressure on Iran' - BBC (April 17, 2012) Hague condemns Tehran for blocking Foreign Office website - BBC (March 18, 2012) Iran accused of intimidating BBC Persian staff - BBC (February 3, 2012) Iran blocks UK Foreign Office website - BBC (December 22, 2011) British 'most secret' invasion plans seized at Iran embassy - 70 years on - The Guardian (December 5, 2011) Iran diplomats to leave UK after Tehran embassy attack - BBC (December 2, 2011) Coup that colours Anglo-Iranian relations - The Guardian (December 1, 2011) UK to expel all Iranian diplomats over embassy attack - BBC (November 30, 2011) UK withdraws diplomatic staff from Iran after attack - BBC (November 30, 2011) Hague says Iran will face 'serious consequences' over embassy attack - The Guardian (November 29, 2011) UK warns Iran after embassy stormed - BBC (November 29, 2011) Iran protesters storm UK embassy in Tehran - BBC (November 29, 2011) Iran parliament votes to downgrade relations with UK - BBC (November 27, 2011) Iranian MPs approve bill to reduce British diplomatic ties with Tehran - The Guardian (November 23, 2011) UK military steps up plans for Iran attack amid fresh nuclear fears - The Guardian (November 2, 2011) Blair criticises Iran and Syria - BBC (September 8, 2011) David Cameron: Britain caused many of the world's problems - Telegraph (April 5, 2011) David Cameron plans link-up with US and France for new sanctions on Iran - The Guardian (February 23, 2011) WikiLeaks cables: UK blocked $60m arms deal over fears of Iran link - The Guardian (February 23, 2011) UK's Thatcher Appealed To Iran Over US Hostages - AP (December 30, 2010) WikiLeaks cables: Iranian TV channel faced UK sanction over jamming row - The Guardian (December 21, 2010) Iranian politicians call for UK ambassador recall - BBC (December 13, 2010) WikiLeaks cables: US pressured British regulator to act against Iranian banks - The Guardian (December 13, 2010) US embassy cables: Foreign office talks tough on Iran - The Guardian (December 13, 2010) Pope helped to free British sailors held by Iran, WikiLeaks cables show - The Guardian (December 10, 2010) Briton teaches US diplomats how to talk to Iran - The Guardian (November 28, 2010) Iran lays claim to British Museum's Cyrus Cylinder - The Guardian (September 15, 2010) Cyrus Cylinder loaned to Iran by British Museum - BBC (September 10, 2010) Sleeping with the Enemy: BP's Deals with Iran - Time Magazine (June 16, 2010) Tony Blair slated for Iran threat claim - Times Online (January 30, 2010) Iran looks again at links with Britain - The Independent (January 18, 2010) National archives: how Britain told deposed Shah of Iran to stay away - The Guardian (December 29, 2009) British sailors seized in Iran apologise for families' ordeal - The Guardian (December 4, 2009) Skipper of UK-crewed yacht admits Iran waters 'mistake' - BBC (December 2, 2009) UK yacht crew detained by Iranian navy - BBC (November 30, 2009) UK to press Iran on embassy staff - BBC (July 5, 2009) UK seeks Iran trial clarification - BBC (July 4, 2009) UK 'deeply concerned' at arrests - BBC (June 28, 2009) Britain and Iran's fraught history - BBC (June 24, 2009) Iran attacks against UK tap into centuries of suspicion - CNN (June 24, 2009) UK expels two Iranian diplomats - BBC (June 23, 2009) Relations between old adversaries Britain and Iran hit new low - The Guardian (June 23, 2009) BBC Bias and the Iranian Revolution - BBC (March 23, 2009) British Council in Iran 'illegal' - BBC (February 5, 2009) British fear US commander is beating the drum for Iran strikes - Telegraph (April 5, 2008) MPs urging direct US-Iran talks - BBC (March 2, 2008) British GCHQ eavesdropping played role in US intelligence U-turn on Iran - The Guardian (December 6, 2007) Iran accuses Britain of digging tunnel to ferry spies into embassy - The Guardian (August 11, 2007) Brown evades question over Iran - BBC (May 26, 2007) Iran to release British sailors tomorrow - The Guardian (April 4, 2007) A bitter legacy - The Guardian (March 30, 2007) Fury as Iran shows footage of captured sailors on television - The Guardian (March 29, 2007) UK/Iran bilateral links suspended - BBC (March 28, 2007) Iranians blame UK for all that goes awry - The Guardian (March 25, 2007) Sailors fall foul of emerging regional superpower - The Guardian (March 24, 2007) Foreign Office demands Tehran frees sailors - The Guardian (March 23, 2007) No plans to attack Iran - Blair - BBC (February 6, 2007) Iran a 'major threat', says Blair - BBC (December 12, 2006) Britain took part in mock Iran invasion - The Guardian (April 15, 2006) UK dismisses talk of Iran attack - BBC (April 9, 2006) Iran calls for UK Iraq pull-out - BBC (February 17, 2006) Iran accuses UK of bombing link - BBC (January 25, 2006) Blair rejects action against Iran and Syria - Telegraph (January 23, 2006) Blair threatens UN action on Iran - BBC (January 11, 2006) Iran nuclear move 'concerns UK' - BBC (January 10, 2006) Iran bombs link: retraction or non-retraction? - BBC (January 10, 2006) Was Blair right to warn Iran? - BBC (October 7, 2005) Blair warns Iran over Iraq bombs - BBC (October 6, 2005) Tehran students attack UK embassy - BBC (September 28, 2005) Military action against Iran 'inconceivable', says Straw - The Guardian (September 28, 2005) Lib Dems challenge Blair to spell out Iran plans - The Guardian (April 23, 2005) Iran must beware of 'cunning' Britain in nuclear talks, says cleric - AFP (February 4, 2005) Can Straw tread softly while US turns its eye on Iran? - The Guardian (January 28, 2005) Straw emollient on Iran rift after US talks - The Guardian (January 25, 2005) BP chief's remarks enrage Iran - The Guardian (January 25, 2005) U.S.: British Foreign Secretary Says U.S. Committed To Diplomatic Approach Toward Iran - RFE (January 25, 2005) Straw flies to US for talks on Iran - The Guardian (January 24, 2005) Britain outlines case against attack on Iran: report - AFP (January 23, 2005) Straw: war on Iran 'inconceivable'- The Guardian (November 5, 2004) Straw defends diplomacy with Iran - BBC (July 4, 2004) Attack Iran, US chief ordered British - Telegraph (June 30, 2004) We must support Iran's evolution - The Guardian (June 27, 2004) Iran frees eight British sailors - The Guardian (June 25, 2004) Talks resume on crew held in Iran - BBC (June 24, 2004) Iran parades captured and blindfolded sailors on TV The - Guardian (June 23, 2004) Delicate UK-Iran ties under strain - BBC (June 21, 2004) HRH visits Iran to see the devastation of the Bam Earthquake (Feb. 15, 2004) Charles's goodwill visit to Iran - BBC (February 9, 2004) Prince Charles tours quake-hit Bam - The Guardian (February 9, 2004) UK refuses to extradite Iranian - BBC (November 13, 2003) Downturn in British-Iran relations is par for the course - AFP (September 16, 2003) Analysis: Iran's UK dilemma - BBC (September 3, 2003) Truck smashes into UK's Iran embassy - BBC (April 1, 2003) Britain's dirty secret - The Guardian (March 6, 2003) Blair tries to woo Iran into anti-Saddam pact - Telegraph (January 7, 2003) Iran rejects ambassador as 'MI6 agent' - The Guardian (February 8, 2002) Iran's love-hate relationship with the UK - BBC (September 29, 2001) Royal to-do over 'undignified festivities' - The Guardian (August 15, 2001) Iranian hardliners accuse Britain of fomenting revolt - 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But why now? And why did it take so long? - The Guardian (March 16, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori on way back to UK, Liz Truss confirms - The Guardian (March 16, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has had UK passport returned, says MP - The Guardian (March 15, 2022) Iranian ambassador to UK removed from post over hijab incident - The Guardian (February 27, 2022) Truss tells Iran she hopes UK will soon be able to repay £400m debt - The Guardian (February 15, 2022) Zaghari-Ratcliffe 'angry at her life being stolen' after deal for release collapses - The Guardian (February 13, 2022) BBC accuses Iran of escalating harassment of staff - BBC (February 10, 2022) Aras Amiri: British Council says jailed employee freed by Iran - BBC (January 12, 2022) Women stage global fast to pressure UK over Nazanin Zagari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (December 20, 2021) Iran says UK is discussing how to repay £400m debt - The Guardian (December 10, 2021) Britain and Israel to sign trade and defence deal - The Guardian (November 28, 2021 Don't mention UK's £400m debt to Iran in Commons, Zaghari-Ratcliffe's MP told - The Guardian (November 15, 2021 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband ending hunger strike after 21 days - BBC (November 13, 2021 UK tells Iran that sanctions prevent payment of £400m debt - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 Why an old £400m debt to Iran stands in way of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 'We should pay debt': Jeremy Hunt says £400m owed to Iran is not ransom money - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 After 17 days of hunger strike, I'm still trying to save Nazanin - The Guardian (November 9, 2021 Richard Ratcliffe on hunger strike: 'There's no plan to get Nazanin out' - The Guardian (November 5, 2021 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband begins new hunger strike in London - BBC (October 24, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe?s husband hits out at government handling of case - The Guardian (October 16, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: British-Iranian aid worker loses court appeal in Iran - BBC (October 16, 2021) RAF intelligence base linked to US drone strike on Iranian general Qassem Soleimani - The Guardian (October 2, 2021) Britain must repay £400m debt and lift sanctions, Iran tells Liz Truss - The Guardian (September 23, 2021) My dad, held hostage in Iran - BBC (September 20, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe campaign urges sanctions against 10 Iranians - The Guardian (September 19, 2021) UK ambassador angers Iran with 'insulting' embassy photo gaffe - The Guardian (August 12, 2021) UK condemns Iran's sentencing of British-Iranian national - Reuters (August 6, 2021) UK summons Iranian envoy over tanker attack - BBC (August 2, 2021) 'Highly likely' Iran was behind fatal oil tanker attack - Dominic Raab - The Guardian (August 1, 2021) Iranian hackers posed as British-based academic - BBC (July 13, 2021) Biden would not bar UK paying Iran debt to secure Nazanin's release - Antony Blinken - Evening Standard (May 6, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK and Iran in talks over debt but 'unlinked' to case - BBC (May 3, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran treatment 'amounts to torture', says Dominic Raab - BBC (May 2, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe sentenced to a year in Iran prison - BBC (April 26, 2021) Court hearing over UK's £400m tank deal debt to Iran postponed - The Guardian (April 19, 2021) Defence secretary says Britain must honour Iran debt linked to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case - Times Online (March 22, 2021) 'Hostage diplomacy' behind Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's Kafkaesque ordeal - The Guardian (March 14, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Tehran court on new charge - BBC (March 14, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe must be released 'permanently', says PM - BBC (March 8, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe released but faces new court date in Iran - BBC (March 7, 2021) Richard Ratcliffe still unsure if wife will be released on Sunday - The Guardian (March 6, 2021) Briton held in Iran 'completely shut off' after losing phone access - The Guardian (February 19, 2021) Kameel Ahmady: British-Iranian academic facing jail escapes Iran - BBC (February 3, 2021) Foreign Office tells Richard Ratcliffe to keep quiet as wife's release date nears - The Guardian (January 31, 2021) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK 'starting to look weak' over failure to protect citizens, says Hunt - The Guardian (December 29, 2020) 'Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a hostage: the government needs to call her that' - The Guardian (December 20, 2020) MPs say UK government strategy on Iran prisoners not working - The Guardian (December 15, 2020) British-Iranian academic sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran - The Guardian (December 13, 2020) Tehran exchanges Kylie Moore-Gilbert for three Iranians jailed abroad - The Guardian (November 25, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe avoids being returned to jail - The Guardian (November 2, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK expresses 'grave concern' over fresh court proceedings - The Guardian (October 29, 2020) Iran moves detained academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert back to Tehran prison - The Guardian (October 29, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to stand trial on fresh charges in Iran next week - The Guardian (October 28, 2020) Hopes for Kylie Moore-Gilbert after detained academic moved out of Iran's Qarchak prison - The Guardian (October 24, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Sentence served but no sign of freedom - Sky News (September 29, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe files report of Revolutionary Guards harassment - The Guardian (September 22, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe speaks of ordeal after trial postponement - The Guardian (September 13, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: New charge 'a political game', says husband - BBC (September 9, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe faces new charge, Iranian media reports - The Guardian (September 8, 2020) Will Britain Follow In America's Footsteps And Repay Iran For Undelivered Military Hardware? - Forbes (September 7, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK acknowledges debt owed to Iran over Shah's tank order - The Guardian (September 4, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert's every step being followed inside prison in Iran - The Guardian (September 2, 2020) UK delays Zaghari-Ratcliffe release for fear of offending Trump, lawyers claim - The Guardian (August 25, 2020) Mike Pompeo: 'I regret' Britain's Iran sanctions vote - Spectator (August 20, 2020) British spy's account sheds light on role in 1953 Iranian coup - The Guardian (August 17, 2020) Explanation of Vote on Non-proliferation (Iran) resolution - GOV.UK (August 14, 2020) Iran jails 'British spy': Former business associate of Tessa Jowell's husband - Daily Mail (August 11, 2020) Two Iranians sentenced to 10 years for spying - BBC (August 11, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert in good health in Iran with access to medical treatment and books, Dfat says - The Guardian (August 4, 2020) MI6, the coup in Iran that changed the Middle East, and the cover-up - The Guardian (August 2, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert: Lecturer jailed in Iran moved to remote prison - BBC (July 28, 2020) 'Radical change' needed for UK-Iran bilateral relations - Cranfield University PR (July 21, 2020) John Bolton: Boris Johnson 'playing Trump like a fiddle' - Politico (June 25, 2020) 1953 Iran coup: How a garbled message from 'Queen Elizabeth' bolstered the overthrow of Mosaddegh's government - The Independent (June 13, 2020) A message from 'Queen Elizabeth' to the shah played role in CIA 1953 coup in Iran, documentary says - NBC News (June 7, 2020) Revolutionary Guards block clemency for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (May 30, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to stay out of prison until Iran decides on fate - The Guardian (May 20, 2020) UK rejects plea for ambassador to visit Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Iran - The Guardian (May 17, 2020) Fears rise Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe may be returned to Iran jail - The Guardian (May 5, 2020) Threat to blow up besieged Iran embassy - archive, 1980 - The Guardian (May 1, 2020) In pictures: Iranian embassy siege in London - BBC (April 30, 2020) Iran extends Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's prison release by month - The Guardian (April 21, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe waiting to hear if she must return to prison - The Guardian (April 18, 2020) Iran temporarily frees British resident Aras Amiri on furlough - Amnesty - Reuters (April 9, 2020) Coronavirus relief workers appeal for release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (April 7, 2020) Iranian dual national Foroughi returns to UK, nine years after arrest - Reuters (April 1, 2020) INSTEX successfully concludes first transaction - GOV.UK (March 31, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe under consideration for clemency - The Guardian (March 29, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe's leave from prison to be extended by two weeks - The Guardian (March 28, 2020) UK presses US to ease Iran sanctions to help fight coronavirus - The Guardian (March 18, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe freed temporarily from Iranian prison - The Guardian (March 17, 2020) Iran's ambassador to UK reveals bilateral talks over £400m debt - The Guardian (March 15, 2020) UN experts demand Iran ceases harassing BBC Persian staff - BBC (March 11, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's health improves despite coronavirus fears - The Guardian (March 9, 2020) British ambassador returns to Iran after brief arrest last month - Reuters (February 6, 2020) Britain complicit in the crushing of Iran's Tudeh party - Qantara (February 5, 2020) Britain's Prince Charles wants to visit Iran: Sunday Times - Reuters (January 25, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband urges PM to be tough with Iran - The Guardian (January 23, 2020) The Zaghari-Ratcliffes' ordeal: a story of British arrogance, secret arms deals and Whitehall infighting - The Guardian (January 23, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: pay £400m debt in aid, urges husband - The Guardian (January 22, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: court hearing over £400m Iran debt may hasten release - The Guardian (January 21, 2020) How Britain helped Iran's Islamic regime destroy the left-wing opposition - Daily Maverick (January 21, 2020) Jailed British-Australian Kylie Moore-Gilbert rejected Iran's offer to work as a spy - The Guardian (January 20, 2020) Rob Macaire: Britain's ambassador to Iran heads back to UK - Sky News (January 15, 2020) Iran warns UK against 'any new mistake' after ambassador arrest - Sky News (January 14, 2020) Boris Johnson: PM urges Trump to come up with new Iran plan - BBC (January 14, 2020) UK summons Iran ambassador over diplomat's 'unacceptable' arrest - BBC (January 13, 2020) Iran regime 'at a crossroads', warns Raab - BBC (January 13, 2020) There's a chance for change in the Middle East and Britain has a role to play - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Dominic Raab warns Iran of 'pariah' status after ambassador arrest - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Iran summons UK ambassador amid row over his arrest - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Britain condemns Tehran's arrest of UK ambassador - BBC (January 12, 2020) UK ambassador arrested in Tehran - BBC (January 11, 2020) Boris Johnson urges Iran president to end military action - The Guardian (January 9, 2020) Iran attack: How much influence does UK have in US-Iran crisis? - BBC (January 8, 2020) Qasem Soleimani: PM 'will not lament' Iranian general's death - BBC (January 5, 2020) Boris Johnson: Qassem Suleimani was threat to all our interests - The Guardian (January 5, 2020) The Guardian view on Trump's war: UK goes from poodle to lapdog? - The Guardian (January 5, 2020) Royal Navy vessels sent to protect shipping in Strait of Hormuz - The Guardian (January 4, 2020) Boris Johnson's silence on Suleimani assassination is 'deafening' say critics - The Guardian (January 4, 2020) Foreign Office hardens Iran and Iraq travel advice - BBC (January 4, 2020) Revealed: David Miliband called off SAS strike on Iranian General Qassim Soleimani in 2007 - Telegraph (January 3, 2020) Qasem Soleimani: Boris Johnson not told about US airstrike - BBC (January 3, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Daughter of Briton jailed in Iran back in UK - BBC (October 11, 2019) Australian-UK blogger couple freed from Iran jail - BBC (October 5, 2019) Iranian spying charge 'preposterous', prisoner's wife says - BBC (September 27, 2019) Stena Impero: Iran 'still investigating' seized British tanker - BBC (September 25, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe must be released, Johnson tells Iran's president - BBC (September 24, 2019) Kylie Moore-Gilbert named as British-Australian academic held in Iran - BBC (September 14, 2019) Britain-Iran relationship caught up in mutual blame game - The Guardian (September 11, 2019) Iran 'convicts British-Iranian dual national of spying for Israel' - BBC (August 27, 2019) Aras Amiri: British Council worker jailed in Iran a 'bargaining chip' - BBC (August 21, 2019) Kameel Ahmady: British-Iranian academic 'arrested in Iran' - BBC (August 14, 2019) UK joins US in mission to protect oil tankers in Gulf - The Guardian (August 5, 2019) Iran ambassador's apparent olive branch could ease Gulf tensions - Sky News (July 31, 2019) Royal Marines used brute force, says tanker captain - BBC (July 30, 2019) Court ruling over tanks debt deals new blow to UK-Iran relations - The Guardian (July 26, 2019) Iran hints at ship swap with UK amid de-escalation efforts - The Guardian (July 24, 2019) Prime mover: Johnson and the UK-Iran crisis - ECFR (July 24, 2019) The 'Special' U.S.-U.K. Relationship is Bruised After Trump Officials Left U.K. Out of Iran Strike Planning - Time Magazine (July 23, 2019) Iran-UK tanker standoff: What is the next step for Britain? - DW (July 23, 2019) UK to seek European maritime mission to counter Iran's ' illegal acts of piracy' - The Guardian (July 22, 2019) Iran tanker seizure: May to chair Cobra meeting on crisis - BBC (July 22, 2019) The English Job by Jack Straw review - portrait of Iran's fixation with Britain - The Guardian (July 22, 2019) Jeremy Hunt under pressure to back plan for Gulf force as Iran digs in - The Guardian (July 21, 2019) Ministers 'considering freezing Iran assets' following tanker seizure - ITV (July 21, 2019) Tanker seizure: Jeremy Hunt urges Iran to release Stena Impero - BBC (July 20, 2019) UK to step up its military presence in Gulf amid crisis with Iran - The Guardian (July 12, 2019) Is the US nudging Britain into dangerous waters with Iran? - The Guardian (July 11, 2019) UK ships in Gulf on high alert after Royal Navy trains guns on Iranian vessels - The Guardian (July 11, 2019) Iranian boats 'tried to intercept British tanker' - BBC (July 11, 2019) Iran summons UK ambassador in tanker seizure row - BBC (July 4, 2019) The heedless drift towards war with Iran shames Britain - The Guardian (June 28, 2019) Will the UK's new prime minister take Trump's side on Iran? - Atlantic Council (June 23, 2019) Gulf of Oman: Iran protests to UK ambassador - BBC (June 16, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe begins new hunger strike - BBC (June 15, 2019) Aras Amiri: British Council names employee jailed by Iran - BBC (May 14, 2019) Iran 'jails British Council worker for spying for UK' - BBC (May 13, 2019) Iran accused of 'playing games' over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (April 27, 2019) Iranian woman in Australian jail drawn into Zaghari-Ratcliffe diplomatic dispute - The Guardian (April 25, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran offers prisoner swap - BBC (April 24, 2019) Iran rejects UK claim of diplomatic status for Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (March 8, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iranian-Briton to get diplomatic protection - BBC (March 7, 2019) Jeremy Hunt warns of Middle East 'first world war risk' on Iran visit - The Guardian (November 19, 2018) Hunt to appeal for release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe on Iran visit - The Guardian (November 18, 2018) Foreign Office advises dual UK-Iranian nationals against all but 'essential' travel to Iran - The Independent (September 19, 2018) US ambassador says UK should join Trump and put pressure on Iran - The Guardian (August 12, 2018) More people with UK links arrested in Iran - BBC (May 2, 2018) Abbas Edalat: Iran confirms arrest of British professor - BBC (April 29, 2018) BBC urges UN to act over harassment of journalists in Iran - The Guardian (March 11, 2018) British dual citizen sentenced to six-year jail term, Iran reveals - Reuters (March 11, 2018) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: question over delay in return of jailed British-Iranian - The Guardian (March 10, 2018) Hopes rise for release of Briton jailed in Iran after court hearing postponed - The Guardian (December 10, 2017) Johnson's talks on jailed Briton in Iran 'worthwhile' - BBC (December 10, 2017) Boris Johnson begins Iran talks over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (December 9, 2017) Britain preparing plan to transfer £400m to Iran as Boris Johnson vows to do everything to bring home Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Telegraph (November 15, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Government considers diplomatic protection - BBC (November 15, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case: Boris Johnson apologises over remarks - BBC (November 13, 2017) Boris Johnson to travel to US in bid to save Iran nuclear deal - The Guardian (November 2, 2017) Iran BBC complaint: UN urges Tehran to stop harassing staff - BBC (October 25, 2017) Iran to blame for cyber-attack on MPs' emails - British intelligence - The Guardian (October 13, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: More charges for mum in Iran - BBC (October 9, 2017) Tensions surface between UK and US over Iran nuclear deal - The Guardian (September 14, 2017) UK warned it needs new Middle East policy that does not rely on Trump - The Guardian (May 2, 2017) May refuses Netanyahu's call to impose new sanctions on Iran - The Guardian (February 6, 2017) Benjamin Netanyahu to press Theresa May for tougher line on Iran - The Guardian (February 5, 2017) Theresa May 'clear-eyed' over Iran threat - BBC (December 6, 2016) UK-Iranian mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe 'jailed on secret charges' - BBC (September 9, 2016) UK appoints first ambassador to Iran in five years - BBC (September 5, 2016) British Airways to resume direct flights to Iran - BBC (September 1, 2016) Iran accuses dual national of spying for British intelligence - BBC (August 16, 2016) May presses Iran over detained Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Reuters (August 9, 2016) Family of charity worker detained in Iran writes to foreign secretary - Press Association (July 26, 2016) Hopes for British-Iranian mother in jail in Iran - BBC (June 16, 2016) Iran accuses British mother, Nazanin Ratcliffe, of leading 'hostile network' to 'overthrow' regime - Telegraph (June 15, 2016) British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe detained for a month 'without charge' - BBC (May 9, 2016) Prince Charles 'plans' historic royal trip to Iran - The Independent (March 27, 2016) Iran and the UK: Bridging the Gulf - British Council (March 2016) Can Iran and the UK really bury the hatchet? - BBC (August 26, 2015) In Iran's eyes, Britain is still the 'old fox' - Telegraph (August 25, 2015) Philip Hammond declares new chapter with Iran in search for end to Syrian war - The Guardian (August 24, 2015) Iran-UK relations: 12 moments in a troubled history - The Guardian (August 23, 2015) Iran reopens embassy in London as Britain does the same in Tehran - The Guardian (August 23, 2015) British embassy in Tehran reopens four years after closure - BBC (August 23, 2015) Foreign Office relaxes Iran advice for British nationals - BBC (July 25, 2015) Tehran embassy re-opening will test troubled UK-Iran relations - The Guardian (July 17, 2015) UK hopes to reopen embassy in Iran by end of year, says Philip Hammond - The Guardian (July 15, 2015) Foreign Office 'did not stop Iraq making chemical weapons' - The Guardian (July 2, 2015) British-Iranian woman jailed over volleyball game sees charges dropped - The Guardian (April 2, 2015) Ghoncheh Ghavami: Charges dropped - but volleyball Briton must stay - The Independent (March 26, 2015) Volleyball woman Ghoncheh Ghavami out of Iran prison - BBC (November 23, 2014) Ghoncheh Ghavami's family devastated by year's jail sentence in Iran - video - The Guardian (November 3, 2014) Leaders of UK and Iran meet for first time since 1979 Islamic revolution - The Guardian (September 24, 2014) David Cameron to meet Iran leader over Isis campaign - The Guardian (September 22, 2014) UK to re-open Iran embassy says Hague - BBC (June 17, 2014) Tehran ready to offer cash for British embassy attack - but no apology - The Guardian (May 18, 2014) UK and Iran discuss re-opening embassies - Telegraph (April 28, 2014) UK and Iran agree to re-establish direct diplomatic relations - The Guardian (February 20, 2014) Iran's largest private bank sues UK government for $4bn damages - BBC (February 17, 2014) Khamenei says US 'wouldn't hesitate' to topple Iranian regime if it could - Reuters (February 9, 2014) Bank Mellat to serve UK government with damages claim of up to £1bn - The Guardian (February 4, 2014) Jack Straw 'optimistic' over Iran future after Tehran visit - BBC (January 10, 2014) Iran claims to have captured MI6 spy - BBC (December 14, 2013) Iranian envoy to make first UK visit - BBC (December 11, 2013) New UK envoy Ajay Sharma to make Iran visit - BBC (December 2, 2013) Cameron makes first call to Iran's Rouhani - BBC (November 19, 2013) UK and Iran name charges d'affaires - BBC (November 11, 2013) Britain and Iran pave way for reopening of London and Tehran embassies - The Guardian (October 8, 2013) UK open to improving London-Tehran ties, says William Hague - The Guardian (July 31, 2013) Labour: UK 'missing opportunity' to engage with Iran - BBC (July 26, 2013) UK not attending Iran president's inauguration - The Guardian (July 24, 2013) Supreme court quashes Iran bank sanctions and criticises secret hearings - The Guardian (June 19, 2013) Iran accuses Britain of operating spy ring to undermine elections - The Independent (June 3, 2013) Iran deputy speaker condemns 2011 attack on UK embassy - BBC (April 5, 2013) Britain was wrong to close Tehran embassy, says David Miliband - The Guardian (January 31, 2013) Iran military action not 'right course at this time', Downing Street says - The Guardian (October 26, 2012) Britain rejects US request to use UK bases in nuclear standoff with Iran - The Guardian (October 25, 2012) Prime Minister David Cameron calls on Israel not to launch unilateral attack on Iran - The Independent (October 15, 2012) Storming British embassy in Iran was not right, says supreme leader - The Guardian (August 7, 2012) UK defence chiefs prepare for conflict with Iran over nuclear programme - The Guardian (May 23, 2012) Flynt Leverett: Going to Tehran - WPSU (May 2, 2013) UK 'will keep up pressure on Iran' - BBC (April 17, 2012) Hague condemns Tehran for blocking Foreign Office website - BBC (March 18, 2012) Iran accused of intimidating BBC Persian staff - BBC (February 3, 2012) Iran blocks UK Foreign Office website - BBC (December 22, 2011) British 'most secret' invasion plans seized at Iran embassy - 70 years on - The Guardian (December 5, 2011) Iran diplomats to leave UK after Tehran embassy attack - BBC (December 2, 2011) Coup that colours Anglo-Iranian relations - The Guardian (December 1, 2011) UK to expel all Iranian diplomats over embassy attack - BBC (November 30, 2011) UK withdraws diplomatic staff from Iran after attack - BBC (November 30, 2011) Hague says Iran will face 'serious consequences' over embassy attack - The Guardian (November 29, 2011) UK warns Iran after embassy stormed - BBC (November 29, 2011) Iran protesters storm UK embassy in Tehran - BBC (November 29, 2011) Iran parliament votes to downgrade relations with UK - BBC (November 27, 2011) Iranian MPs approve bill to reduce British diplomatic ties with Tehran - The Guardian (November 23, 2011) UK military steps up plans for Iran attack amid fresh nuclear fears - The Guardian (November 2, 2011) Blair criticises Iran and Syria - BBC (September 8, 2011) David Cameron: Britain caused many of the world's problems - Telegraph (April 5, 2011) David Cameron plans link-up with US and France for new sanctions on Iran - The Guardian (February 23, 2011) WikiLeaks cables: UK blocked $60m arms deal over fears of Iran link - The Guardian (February 23, 2011) UK's Thatcher Appealed To Iran Over US Hostages - AP (December 30, 2010) WikiLeaks cables: Iranian TV channel faced UK sanction over jamming row - The Guardian (December 21, 2010) Iranian politicians call for UK ambassador recall - BBC (December 13, 2010) WikiLeaks cables: US pressured British regulator to act against Iranian banks - The Guardian (December 13, 2010) US embassy cables: Foreign office talks tough on Iran - The Guardian (December 13, 2010) Pope helped to free British sailors held by Iran, WikiLeaks cables show - The Guardian (December 10, 2010) Briton teaches US diplomats how to talk to Iran - The Guardian (November 28, 2010) Iran lays claim to British Museum's Cyrus Cylinder - The Guardian (September 15, 2010) Cyrus Cylinder loaned to Iran by British Museum - BBC (September 10, 2010) Sleeping with the Enemy: BP's Deals with Iran - Time Magazine (June 16, 2010) Tony Blair slated for Iran threat claim - Times Online (January 30, 2010) Iran looks again at links with Britain - The Independent (January 18, 2010) National archives: how Britain told deposed Shah of Iran to stay away - The Guardian (December 29, 2009) British sailors seized in Iran apologise for families' ordeal - The Guardian (December 4, 2009) Skipper of UK-crewed yacht admits Iran waters 'mistake' - BBC (December 2, 2009) UK yacht crew detained by Iranian navy - BBC (November 30, 2009) UK to press Iran on embassy staff - BBC (July 5, 2009) UK seeks Iran trial clarification - BBC (July 4, 2009) UK 'deeply concerned' at arrests - BBC (June 28, 2009) Britain and Iran's fraught history - BBC (June 24, 2009) Iran attacks against UK tap into centuries of suspicion - CNN (June 24, 2009) UK expels two Iranian diplomats - BBC (June 23, 2009) Relations between old adversaries Britain and Iran hit new low - The Guardian (June 23, 2009) BBC Bias and the Iranian Revolution - BBC (March 23, 2009) British Council in Iran 'illegal' - BBC (February 5, 2009) British fear US commander is beating the drum for Iran strikes - Telegraph (April 5, 2008) MPs urging direct US-Iran talks - BBC (March 2, 2008) British GCHQ eavesdropping played role in US intelligence U-turn on Iran - The Guardian (December 6, 2007) Iran accuses Britain of digging tunnel to ferry spies into embassy - The Guardian (August 11, 2007) Brown evades question over Iran - BBC (May 26, 2007) Iran to release British sailors tomorrow - The Guardian (April 4, 2007) A bitter legacy - The Guardian (March 30, 2007) Fury as Iran shows footage of captured sailors on television - The Guardian (March 29, 2007) UK/Iran bilateral links suspended - BBC (March 28, 2007) Iranians blame UK for all that goes awry - The Guardian (March 25, 2007) Sailors fall foul of emerging regional superpower - The Guardian (March 24, 2007) Foreign Office demands Tehran frees sailors - The Guardian (March 23, 2007) No plans to attack Iran - Blair - BBC (February 6, 2007) Iran a 'major threat', says Blair - BBC (December 12, 2006) Britain took part in mock Iran invasion - The Guardian (April 15, 2006) UK dismisses talk of Iran attack - BBC (April 9, 2006) Iran calls for UK Iraq pull-out - BBC (February 17, 2006) Iran accuses UK of bombing link - BBC (January 25, 2006) Blair rejects action against Iran and Syria - Telegraph (January 23, 2006) Blair threatens UN action on Iran - BBC (January 11, 2006) Iran nuclear move 'concerns UK' - BBC (January 10, 2006) Iran bombs link: retraction or non-retraction? - BBC (January 10, 2006) Was Blair right to warn Iran? - BBC (October 7, 2005) Blair warns Iran over Iraq bombs - BBC (October 6, 2005) Tehran students attack UK embassy - BBC (September 28, 2005) Military action against Iran 'inconceivable', says Straw - The Guardian (September 28, 2005) Lib Dems challenge Blair to spell out Iran plans - The Guardian (April 23, 2005) Iran must beware of 'cunning' Britain in nuclear talks, says cleric - AFP (February 4, 2005) Can Straw tread softly while US turns its eye on Iran? - The Guardian (January 28, 2005) Straw emollient on Iran rift after US talks - The Guardian (January 25, 2005) BP chief's remarks enrage Iran - The Guardian (January 25, 2005) U.S.: British Foreign Secretary Says U.S. Committed To Diplomatic Approach Toward Iran - RFE (January 25, 2005) Straw flies to US for talks on Iran - The Guardian (January 24, 2005) Britain outlines case against attack on Iran: report - AFP (January 23, 2005) Straw: war on Iran 'inconceivable'- The Guardian (November 5, 2004) Straw defends diplomacy with Iran - BBC (July 4, 2004) Attack Iran, US chief ordered British - Telegraph (June 30, 2004) We must support Iran's evolution - The Guardian (June 27, 2004) Iran frees eight British sailors - The Guardian (June 25, 2004) Talks resume on crew held in Iran - 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And why did it take so long? - The Guardian (March 16, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori on way back to UK, Liz Truss confirms - The Guardian (March 16, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has had UK passport returned, says MP - The Guardian (March 15, 2022) Iranian ambassador to UK removed from post over hijab incident - The Guardian (February 27, 2022) Truss tells Iran she hopes UK will soon be able to repay £400m debt - The Guardian (February 15, 2022) Zaghari-Ratcliffe 'angry at her life being stolen' after deal for release collapses - The Guardian (February 13, 2022) BBC accuses Iran of escalating harassment of staff - BBC (February 10, 2022) Aras Amiri: British Council says jailed employee freed by Iran - BBC (January 12, 2022) Women stage global fast to pressure UK over Nazanin Zagari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (December 20, 2021) Iran says UK is discussing how to repay £400m debt - The Guardian (December 10, 2021) Britain and Israel to sign trade and defence deal - The Guardian (November 28, 2021 Don't mention UK's £400m debt to Iran in Commons, Zaghari-Ratcliffe's MP told - The Guardian (November 15, 2021 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband ending hunger strike after 21 days - BBC (November 13, 2021 UK tells Iran that sanctions prevent payment of £400m debt - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 Why an old £400m debt to Iran stands in way of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 'We should pay debt': Jeremy Hunt says £400m owed to Iran is not ransom money - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 After 17 days of hunger strike, I'm still trying to save Nazanin - The Guardian (November 9, 2021 Richard Ratcliffe on hunger strike: 'There's no plan to get Nazanin out' - The Guardian (November 5, 2021 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband begins new hunger strike in London - BBC (October 24, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe?s husband hits out at government handling of case - The Guardian (October 16, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: British-Iranian aid worker loses court appeal in Iran - BBC (October 16, 2021) RAF intelligence base linked to US drone strike on Iranian general Qassem Soleimani - The Guardian (October 2, 2021) Britain must repay £400m debt and lift sanctions, Iran tells Liz Truss - The Guardian (September 23, 2021) My dad, held hostage in Iran - BBC (September 20, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe campaign urges sanctions against 10 Iranians - The Guardian (September 19, 2021) UK ambassador angers Iran with 'insulting' embassy photo gaffe - The Guardian (August 12, 2021) UK condemns Iran's sentencing of British-Iranian national - Reuters (August 6, 2021) UK summons Iranian envoy over tanker attack - BBC (August 2, 2021) 'Highly likely' Iran was behind fatal oil tanker attack - Dominic Raab - The Guardian (August 1, 2021) Iranian hackers posed as British-based academic - BBC (July 13, 2021) Biden would not bar UK paying Iran debt to secure Nazanin's release - Antony Blinken - Evening Standard (May 6, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK and Iran in talks over debt but 'unlinked' to case - BBC (May 3, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran treatment 'amounts to torture', says Dominic Raab - BBC (May 2, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe sentenced to a year in Iran prison - BBC (April 26, 2021) Court hearing over UK's £400m tank deal debt to Iran postponed - The Guardian (April 19, 2021) Defence secretary says Britain must honour Iran debt linked to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case - Times Online (March 22, 2021) 'Hostage diplomacy' behind Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's Kafkaesque ordeal - The Guardian (March 14, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Tehran court on new charge - BBC (March 14, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe must be released 'permanently', says PM - BBC (March 8, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe released but faces new court date in Iran - BBC (March 7, 2021) Richard Ratcliffe still unsure if wife will be released on Sunday - The Guardian (March 6, 2021) Briton held in Iran 'completely shut off' after losing phone access - The Guardian (February 19, 2021) Kameel Ahmady: British-Iranian academic facing jail escapes Iran - BBC (February 3, 2021) Foreign Office tells Richard Ratcliffe to keep quiet as wife's release date nears - The Guardian (January 31, 2021) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK 'starting to look weak' over failure to protect citizens, says Hunt - The Guardian (December 29, 2020) 'Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a hostage: the government needs to call her that' - The Guardian (December 20, 2020) MPs say UK government strategy on Iran prisoners not working - The Guardian (December 15, 2020) British-Iranian academic sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran - The Guardian (December 13, 2020) Tehran exchanges Kylie Moore-Gilbert for three Iranians jailed abroad - The Guardian (November 25, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe avoids being returned to jail - The Guardian (November 2, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK expresses 'grave concern' over fresh court proceedings - The Guardian (October 29, 2020) Iran moves detained academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert back to Tehran prison - The Guardian (October 29, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to stand trial on fresh charges in Iran next week - The Guardian (October 28, 2020) Hopes for Kylie Moore-Gilbert after detained academic moved out of Iran's Qarchak prison - The Guardian (October 24, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Sentence served but no sign of freedom - Sky News (September 29, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe files report of Revolutionary Guards harassment - The Guardian (September 22, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe speaks of ordeal after trial postponement - The Guardian (September 13, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: New charge 'a political game', says husband - BBC (September 9, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe faces new charge, Iranian media reports - The Guardian (September 8, 2020) Will Britain Follow In America's Footsteps And Repay Iran For Undelivered Military Hardware? - Forbes (September 7, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK acknowledges debt owed to Iran over Shah's tank order - The Guardian (September 4, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert's every step being followed inside prison in Iran - The Guardian (September 2, 2020) UK delays Zaghari-Ratcliffe release for fear of offending Trump, lawyers claim - The Guardian (August 25, 2020) Mike Pompeo: 'I regret' Britain's Iran sanctions vote - Spectator (August 20, 2020) British spy's account sheds light on role in 1953 Iranian coup - The Guardian (August 17, 2020) Explanation of Vote on Non-proliferation (Iran) resolution - GOV.UK (August 14, 2020) Iran jails 'British spy': Former business associate of Tessa Jowell's husband - Daily Mail (August 11, 2020) Two Iranians sentenced to 10 years for spying - BBC (August 11, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert in good health in Iran with access to medical treatment and books, Dfat says - The Guardian (August 4, 2020) MI6, the coup in Iran that changed the Middle East, and the cover-up - The Guardian (August 2, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert: Lecturer jailed in Iran moved to remote prison - BBC (July 28, 2020) 'Radical change' needed for UK-Iran bilateral relations - Cranfield University PR (July 21, 2020) John Bolton: Boris Johnson 'playing Trump like a fiddle' - Politico (June 25, 2020) 1953 Iran coup: How a garbled message from 'Queen Elizabeth' bolstered the overthrow of Mosaddegh's government - The Independent (June 13, 2020) A message from 'Queen Elizabeth' to the shah played role in CIA 1953 coup in Iran, documentary says - NBC News (June 7, 2020) Revolutionary Guards block clemency for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (May 30, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to stay out of prison until Iran decides on fate - The Guardian (May 20, 2020) UK rejects plea for ambassador to visit Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Iran - The Guardian (May 17, 2020) Fears rise Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe may be returned to Iran jail - The Guardian (May 5, 2020) Threat to blow up besieged Iran embassy - archive, 1980 - The Guardian (May 1, 2020) In pictures: Iranian embassy siege in London - BBC (April 30, 2020) Iran extends Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's prison release by month - The Guardian (April 21, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe waiting to hear if she must return to prison - The Guardian (April 18, 2020) Iran temporarily frees British resident Aras Amiri on furlough - Amnesty - Reuters (April 9, 2020) Coronavirus relief workers appeal for release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (April 7, 2020) Iranian dual national Foroughi returns to UK, nine years after arrest - Reuters (April 1, 2020) INSTEX successfully concludes first transaction - GOV.UK (March 31, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe under consideration for clemency - The Guardian (March 29, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe's leave from prison to be extended by two weeks - The Guardian (March 28, 2020) UK presses US to ease Iran sanctions to help fight coronavirus - The Guardian (March 18, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe freed temporarily from Iranian prison - The Guardian (March 17, 2020) Iran's ambassador to UK reveals bilateral talks over £400m debt - The Guardian (March 15, 2020) UN experts demand Iran ceases harassing BBC Persian staff - BBC (March 11, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's health improves despite coronavirus fears - The Guardian (March 9, 2020) British ambassador returns to Iran after brief arrest last month - Reuters (February 6, 2020) Britain complicit in the crushing of Iran's Tudeh party - Qantara (February 5, 2020) Britain's Prince Charles wants to visit Iran: Sunday Times - Reuters (January 25, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband urges PM to be tough with Iran - The Guardian (January 23, 2020) The Zaghari-Ratcliffes' ordeal: a story of British arrogance, secret arms deals and Whitehall infighting - The Guardian (January 23, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: pay £400m debt in aid, urges husband - The Guardian (January 22, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: court hearing over £400m Iran debt may hasten release - The Guardian (January 21, 2020) How Britain helped Iran's Islamic regime destroy the left-wing opposition - Daily Maverick (January 21, 2020) Jailed British-Australian Kylie Moore-Gilbert rejected Iran's offer to work as a spy - The Guardian (January 20, 2020) Rob Macaire: Britain's ambassador to Iran heads back to UK - Sky News (January 15, 2020) Iran warns UK against 'any new mistake' after ambassador arrest - Sky News (January 14, 2020) Boris Johnson: PM urges Trump to come up with new Iran plan - BBC (January 14, 2020) UK summons Iran ambassador over diplomat's 'unacceptable' arrest - BBC (January 13, 2020) Iran regime 'at a crossroads', warns Raab - BBC (January 13, 2020) There's a chance for change in the Middle East and Britain has a role to play - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Dominic Raab warns Iran of 'pariah' status after ambassador arrest - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Iran summons UK ambassador amid row over his arrest - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Britain condemns Tehran's arrest of UK ambassador - BBC (January 12, 2020) UK ambassador arrested in Tehran - BBC (January 11, 2020) Boris Johnson urges Iran president to end military action - The Guardian (January 9, 2020) Iran attack: How much influence does UK have in US-Iran crisis? - BBC (January 8, 2020) Qasem Soleimani: PM 'will not lament' Iranian general's death - BBC (January 5, 2020) Boris Johnson: Qassem Suleimani was threat to all our interests - The Guardian (January 5, 2020) The Guardian view on Trump's war: UK goes from poodle to lapdog? - The Guardian (January 5, 2020) Royal Navy vessels sent to protect shipping in Strait of Hormuz - The Guardian (January 4, 2020) Boris Johnson's silence on Suleimani assassination is 'deafening' say critics - The Guardian (January 4, 2020) Foreign Office hardens Iran and Iraq travel advice - BBC (January 4, 2020) Revealed: David Miliband called off SAS strike on Iranian General Qassim Soleimani in 2007 - Telegraph (January 3, 2020) Qasem Soleimani: Boris Johnson not told about US airstrike - BBC (January 3, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Daughter of Briton jailed in Iran back in UK - BBC (October 11, 2019) Australian-UK blogger couple freed from Iran jail - BBC (October 5, 2019) Iranian spying charge 'preposterous', prisoner's wife says - BBC (September 27, 2019) Stena Impero: Iran 'still investigating' seized British tanker - BBC (September 25, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe must be released, Johnson tells Iran's president - BBC (September 24, 2019) Kylie Moore-Gilbert named as British-Australian academic held in Iran - BBC (September 14, 2019) Britain-Iran relationship caught up in mutual blame game - The Guardian (September 11, 2019) Iran 'convicts British-Iranian dual national of spying for Israel' - BBC (August 27, 2019) Aras Amiri: British Council worker jailed in Iran a 'bargaining chip' - BBC (August 21, 2019) Kameel Ahmady: British-Iranian academic 'arrested in Iran' - BBC (August 14, 2019) UK joins US in mission to protect oil tankers in Gulf - The Guardian (August 5, 2019) Iran ambassador's apparent olive branch could ease Gulf tensions - Sky News (July 31, 2019) Royal Marines used brute force, says tanker captain - BBC (July 30, 2019) Court ruling over tanks debt deals new blow to UK-Iran relations - The Guardian (July 26, 2019) Iran hints at ship swap with UK amid de-escalation efforts - The Guardian (July 24, 2019) Prime mover: Johnson and the UK-Iran crisis - ECFR (July 24, 2019) The 'Special' U.S.-U.K. Relationship is Bruised After Trump Officials Left U.K. Out of Iran Strike Planning - Time Magazine (July 23, 2019) Iran-UK tanker standoff: What is the next step for Britain? - DW (July 23, 2019) UK to seek European maritime mission to counter Iran's ' illegal acts of piracy' - The Guardian (July 22, 2019) Iran tanker seizure: May to chair Cobra meeting on crisis - BBC (July 22, 2019) The English Job by Jack Straw review - portrait of Iran's fixation with Britain - The Guardian (July 22, 2019) Jeremy Hunt under pressure to back plan for Gulf force as Iran digs in - The Guardian (July 21, 2019) Ministers 'considering freezing Iran assets' following tanker seizure - ITV (July 21, 2019) Tanker seizure: Jeremy Hunt urges Iran to release Stena Impero - BBC (July 20, 2019) UK to step up its military presence in Gulf amid crisis with Iran - The Guardian (July 12, 2019) Is the US nudging Britain into dangerous waters with Iran? - The Guardian (July 11, 2019) UK ships in Gulf on high alert after Royal Navy trains guns on Iranian vessels - The Guardian (July 11, 2019) Iranian boats 'tried to intercept British tanker' - BBC (July 11, 2019) Iran summons UK ambassador in tanker seizure row - BBC (July 4, 2019) The heedless drift towards war with Iran shames Britain - The Guardian (June 28, 2019) Will the UK's new prime minister take Trump's side on Iran? - Atlantic Council (June 23, 2019) Gulf of Oman: Iran protests to UK ambassador - BBC (June 16, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe begins new hunger strike - BBC (June 15, 2019) Aras Amiri: British Council names employee jailed by Iran - BBC (May 14, 2019) Iran 'jails British Council worker for spying for UK' - BBC (May 13, 2019) Iran accused of 'playing games' over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (April 27, 2019) Iranian woman in Australian jail drawn into Zaghari-Ratcliffe diplomatic dispute - The Guardian (April 25, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran offers prisoner swap - BBC (April 24, 2019) Iran rejects UK claim of diplomatic status for Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (March 8, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iranian-Briton to get diplomatic protection - BBC (March 7, 2019) Jeremy Hunt warns of Middle East 'first world war risk' on Iran visit - The Guardian (November 19, 2018) Hunt to appeal for release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe on Iran visit - The Guardian (November 18, 2018) Foreign Office advises dual UK-Iranian nationals against all but 'essential' travel to Iran - The Independent (September 19, 2018) US ambassador says UK should join Trump and put pressure on Iran - The Guardian (August 12, 2018) More people with UK links arrested in Iran - BBC (May 2, 2018) Abbas Edalat: Iran confirms arrest of British professor - BBC (April 29, 2018) BBC urges UN to act over harassment of journalists in Iran - The Guardian (March 11, 2018) British dual citizen sentenced to six-year jail term, Iran reveals - Reuters (March 11, 2018) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: question over delay in return of jailed British-Iranian - The Guardian (March 10, 2018) Hopes rise for release of Briton jailed in Iran after court hearing postponed - The Guardian (December 10, 2017) Johnson's talks on jailed Briton in Iran 'worthwhile' - BBC (December 10, 2017) Boris Johnson begins Iran talks over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (December 9, 2017) Britain preparing plan to transfer £400m to Iran as Boris Johnson vows to do everything to bring home Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Telegraph (November 15, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Government considers diplomatic protection - BBC (November 15, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case: Boris Johnson apologises over remarks - BBC (November 13, 2017) Boris Johnson to travel to US in bid to save Iran nuclear deal - The Guardian (November 2, 2017) Iran BBC complaint: UN urges Tehran to stop harassing staff - BBC (October 25, 2017) Iran to blame for cyber-attack on MPs' emails - British intelligence - The Guardian (October 13, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: More charges for mum in Iran - BBC (October 9, 2017) Tensions surface between UK and US over Iran nuclear deal - The Guardian (September 14, 2017) UK warned it needs new Middle East policy that does not rely on Trump - The Guardian (May 2, 2017) May refuses Netanyahu's call to impose new sanctions on Iran - The Guardian (February 6, 2017) Benjamin Netanyahu to press Theresa May for tougher line on Iran - The Guardian (February 5, 2017) Theresa May 'clear-eyed' over Iran threat - BBC (December 6, 2016) UK-Iranian mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe 'jailed on secret charges' - BBC (September 9, 2016) UK appoints first ambassador to Iran in five years - BBC (September 5, 2016) British Airways to resume direct flights to Iran - BBC (September 1, 2016) Iran accuses dual national of spying for British intelligence - BBC (August 16, 2016) May presses Iran over detained Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Reuters (August 9, 2016) Family of charity worker detained in Iran writes to foreign secretary - Press Association (July 26, 2016) Hopes for British-Iranian mother in jail in Iran - BBC (June 16, 2016) Iran accuses British mother, Nazanin Ratcliffe, of leading 'hostile network' to 'overthrow' regime - Telegraph (June 15, 2016) British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe detained for a month 'without charge' - BBC (May 9, 2016) Prince Charles 'plans' historic royal trip to Iran - The Independent (March 27, 2016) Iran and the UK: Bridging the Gulf - British Council (March 2016) Can Iran and the UK really bury the hatchet? - BBC (August 26, 2015) In Iran's eyes, Britain is still the 'old fox' - Telegraph (August 25, 2015) Philip Hammond declares new chapter with Iran in search for end to Syrian war - The Guardian (August 24, 2015) Iran-UK relations: 12 moments in a troubled history - The Guardian (August 23, 2015) Iran reopens embassy in London as Britain does the same in Tehran - The Guardian (August 23, 2015) British embassy in Tehran reopens four years after closure - BBC (August 23, 2015) Foreign Office relaxes Iran advice for British nationals - BBC (July 25, 2015) Tehran embassy re-opening will test troubled UK-Iran relations - The Guardian (July 17, 2015) UK hopes to reopen embassy in Iran by end of year, says Philip Hammond - The Guardian (July 15, 2015) Foreign Office 'did not stop Iraq making chemical weapons' - The Guardian (July 2, 2015) British-Iranian woman jailed over volleyball game sees charges dropped - The Guardian (April 2, 2015) Ghoncheh Ghavami: Charges dropped - but volleyball Briton must stay - The Independent (March 26, 2015) Volleyball woman Ghoncheh Ghavami out of Iran prison - BBC (November 23, 2014) Ghoncheh Ghavami's family devastated by year's jail sentence in Iran - video - The Guardian (November 3, 2014) Leaders of UK and Iran meet for first time since 1979 Islamic revolution - The Guardian (September 24, 2014) David Cameron to meet Iran leader over Isis campaign - The Guardian (September 22, 2014) UK to re-open Iran embassy says Hague - BBC (June 17, 2014) Tehran ready to offer cash for British embassy attack - but no apology - The Guardian (May 18, 2014) UK and Iran discuss re-opening embassies - Telegraph (April 28, 2014) UK and Iran agree to re-establish direct diplomatic relations - The Guardian (February 20, 2014) Iran's largest private bank sues UK government for $4bn damages - BBC (February 17, 2014) Khamenei says US 'wouldn't hesitate' to topple Iranian regime if it could - Reuters (February 9, 2014) Bank Mellat to serve UK government with damages claim of up to £1bn - The Guardian (February 4, 2014) Jack Straw 'optimistic' over Iran future after Tehran visit - BBC (January 10, 2014) Iran claims to have captured MI6 spy - BBC (December 14, 2013) Iranian envoy to make first UK visit - BBC (December 11, 2013) New UK envoy Ajay Sharma to make Iran visit - BBC (December 2, 2013) Cameron makes first call to Iran's Rouhani - BBC (November 19, 2013) UK and Iran name charges d'affaires - BBC (November 11, 2013) Britain and Iran pave way for reopening of London and Tehran embassies - The Guardian (October 8, 2013) UK open to improving London-Tehran ties, says William Hague - The Guardian (July 31, 2013) Labour: UK 'missing opportunity' to engage with Iran - BBC (July 26, 2013) UK not attending Iran president's inauguration - The Guardian (July 24, 2013) Supreme court quashes Iran bank sanctions and criticises secret hearings - The Guardian (June 19, 2013) Iran accuses Britain of operating spy ring to undermine elections - The Independent (June 3, 2013) Iran deputy speaker condemns 2011 attack on UK embassy - BBC (April 5, 2013) Britain was wrong to close Tehran embassy, says David Miliband - The Guardian (January 31, 2013) Iran military action not 'right course at this time', Downing Street says - The Guardian (October 26, 2012) Britain rejects US request to use UK bases in nuclear standoff with Iran - The Guardian (October 25, 2012) Prime Minister David Cameron calls on Israel not to launch unilateral attack on Iran - The Independent (October 15, 2012) Storming British embassy in Iran was not right, says supreme leader - The Guardian (August 7, 2012) UK defence chiefs prepare for conflict with Iran over nuclear programme - The Guardian (May 23, 2012) Flynt Leverett: Going to Tehran - WPSU (May 2, 2013) UK 'will keep up pressure on Iran' - BBC (April 17, 2012) Hague condemns Tehran for blocking Foreign Office website - BBC (March 18, 2012) Iran accused of intimidating BBC Persian staff - BBC (February 3, 2012) Iran blocks UK Foreign Office website - BBC (December 22, 2011) British 'most secret' invasion plans seized at Iran embassy - 70 years on - The Guardian (December 5, 2011) Iran diplomats to leave UK after Tehran embassy attack - BBC (December 2, 2011) Coup that colours Anglo-Iranian relations - The Guardian (December 1, 2011) UK to expel all Iranian diplomats over embassy attack - BBC (November 30, 2011) UK withdraws diplomatic staff from Iran after attack - BBC (November 30, 2011) Hague says Iran will face 'serious consequences' over embassy attack - The Guardian (November 29, 2011) UK warns Iran after embassy stormed - BBC (November 29, 2011) Iran protesters storm UK embassy in Tehran - BBC (November 29, 2011) Iran parliament votes to downgrade relations with UK - BBC (November 27, 2011) Iranian MPs approve bill to reduce British diplomatic ties with Tehran - The Guardian (November 23, 2011) UK military steps up plans for Iran attack amid fresh nuclear fears - The Guardian (November 2, 2011) Blair criticises Iran and Syria - BBC (September 8, 2011) David Cameron: Britain caused many of the world's problems - Telegraph (April 5, 2011) David Cameron plans link-up with US and France for new sanctions on Iran - The Guardian (February 23, 2011) WikiLeaks cables: UK blocked $60m arms deal over fears of Iran link - The Guardian (February 23, 2011) UK's Thatcher Appealed To Iran Over US Hostages - AP (December 30, 2010) WikiLeaks cables: Iranian TV channel faced UK sanction over jamming row - The Guardian (December 21, 2010) Iranian politicians call for UK ambassador recall - BBC (December 13, 2010) WikiLeaks cables: US pressured British regulator to act against Iranian banks - The Guardian (December 13, 2010) US embassy cables: Foreign office talks tough on Iran - The Guardian (December 13, 2010) Pope helped to free British sailors held by Iran, WikiLeaks cables show - The Guardian (December 10, 2010) Briton teaches US diplomats how to talk to Iran - The Guardian (November 28, 2010) Iran lays claim to British Museum's Cyrus Cylinder - The Guardian (September 15, 2010) Cyrus Cylinder loaned to Iran by British Museum - BBC (September 10, 2010) Sleeping with the Enemy: BP's Deals with Iran - Time Magazine (June 16, 2010) Tony Blair slated for Iran threat claim - Times Online (January 30, 2010) Iran looks again at links with Britain - The Independent (January 18, 2010) National archives: how Britain told deposed Shah of Iran to stay away - The Guardian (December 29, 2009) British sailors seized in Iran apologise for families' ordeal - The Guardian (December 4, 2009) Skipper of UK-crewed yacht admits Iran waters 'mistake' - BBC (December 2, 2009) UK yacht crew detained by Iranian navy - BBC (November 30, 2009) UK to press Iran on embassy staff - BBC (July 5, 2009) UK seeks Iran trial clarification - BBC (July 4, 2009) UK 'deeply concerned' at arrests - BBC (June 28, 2009) Britain and Iran's fraught history - BBC (June 24, 2009) Iran attacks against UK tap into centuries of suspicion - CNN (June 24, 2009) UK expels two Iranian diplomats - BBC (June 23, 2009) Relations between old adversaries Britain and Iran hit new low - The Guardian (June 23, 2009) BBC Bias and the Iranian Revolution - BBC (March 23, 2009) British Council in Iran 'illegal' - BBC (February 5, 2009) British fear US commander is beating the drum for Iran strikes - Telegraph (April 5, 2008) MPs urging direct US-Iran talks - BBC (March 2, 2008) British GCHQ eavesdropping played role in US intelligence U-turn on Iran - The Guardian (December 6, 2007) Iran accuses Britain of digging tunnel to ferry spies into embassy - The Guardian (August 11, 2007) Brown evades question over Iran - BBC (May 26, 2007) Iran to release British sailors tomorrow - The Guardian (April 4, 2007) A bitter legacy - The Guardian (March 30, 2007) Fury as Iran shows footage of captured sailors on television - The Guardian (March 29, 2007) UK/Iran bilateral links suspended - BBC (March 28, 2007) Iranians blame UK for all that goes awry - The Guardian (March 25, 2007) Sailors fall foul of emerging regional superpower - The Guardian (March 24, 2007) Foreign Office demands Tehran frees sailors - The Guardian (March 23, 2007) No plans to attack Iran - Blair - BBC (February 6, 2007) Iran a 'major threat', says Blair - BBC (December 12, 2006) Britain took part in mock Iran invasion - The Guardian (April 15, 2006) UK dismisses talk of Iran attack - BBC (April 9, 2006) Iran calls for UK Iraq pull-out - BBC (February 17, 2006) Iran accuses UK of bombing link - BBC (January 25, 2006) Blair rejects action against Iran and Syria - Telegraph (January 23, 2006) Blair threatens UN action on Iran - BBC (January 11, 2006) Iran nuclear move 'concerns UK' - BBC (January 10, 2006) Iran bombs link: retraction or non-retraction? - BBC (January 10, 2006) Was Blair right to warn Iran? - BBC (October 7, 2005) Blair warns Iran over Iraq bombs - BBC (October 6, 2005) Tehran students attack UK embassy - BBC (September 28, 2005) Military action against Iran 'inconceivable', says Straw - The Guardian (September 28, 2005) Lib Dems challenge Blair to spell out Iran plans - The Guardian (April 23, 2005) Iran must beware of 'cunning' Britain in nuclear talks, says cleric - AFP (February 4, 2005) Can Straw tread softly while US turns its eye on Iran? - The Guardian (January 28, 2005) Straw emollient on Iran rift after US talks - The Guardian (January 25, 2005) BP chief's remarks enrage Iran - The Guardian (January 25, 2005) U.S.: British Foreign Secretary Says U.S. Committed To Diplomatic Approach Toward Iran - RFE (January 25, 2005) Straw flies to US for talks on Iran - The Guardian (January 24, 2005) Britain outlines case against attack on Iran: report - AFP (January 23, 2005) Straw: war on Iran 'inconceivable'- The Guardian (November 5, 2004) Straw defends diplomacy with Iran - BBC (July 4, 2004) Attack Iran, US chief ordered British - Telegraph (June 30, 2004) We must support Iran's evolution - The Guardian (June 27, 2004) Iran frees eight British sailors - The Guardian (June 25, 2004) Talks resume on crew held in Iran - BBC (June 24, 2004) Iran parades captured and blindfolded sailors on TV The - Guardian (June 23, 2004) Delicate UK-Iran ties under strain - BBC (June 21, 2004) HRH visits Iran to see the devastation of the Bam Earthquake (Feb. 15, 2004) Charles's goodwill visit to Iran - BBC (February 9, 2004) Prince Charles tours quake-hit Bam - The Guardian (February 9, 2004) UK refuses to extradite Iranian - BBC (November 13, 2003) Downturn in British-Iran relations is par for the course - AFP (September 16, 2003) Analysis: Iran's UK dilemma - BBC (September 3, 2003) Truck smashes into UK's Iran embassy - BBC (April 1, 2003) Britain's dirty secret - The Guardian (March 6, 2003) Blair tries to woo Iran into anti-Saddam pact - Telegraph (January 7, 2003) Iran rejects ambassador as 'MI6 agent' - The Guardian (February 8, 2002) Iran's love-hate relationship with the UK - BBC (September 29, 2001) Royal to-do over 'undignified festivities' - The Guardian (August 15, 2001) Iranian hardliners accuse Britain of fomenting revolt - 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But why now? And why did it take so long? - The Guardian (March 16, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori on way back to UK, Liz Truss confirms - The Guardian (March 16, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has had UK passport returned, says MP - The Guardian (March 15, 2022) Iranian ambassador to UK removed from post over hijab incident - The Guardian (February 27, 2022) Truss tells Iran she hopes UK will soon be able to repay £400m debt - The Guardian (February 15, 2022) Zaghari-Ratcliffe 'angry at her life being stolen' after deal for release collapses - The Guardian (February 13, 2022) BBC accuses Iran of escalating harassment of staff - BBC (February 10, 2022) Aras Amiri: British Council says jailed employee freed by Iran - BBC (January 12, 2022) Women stage global fast to pressure UK over Nazanin Zagari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (December 20, 2021) Iran says UK is discussing how to repay £400m debt - The Guardian (December 10, 2021) Britain and Israel to sign trade and defence deal - The Guardian (November 28, 2021 Don't mention UK's £400m debt to Iran in Commons, Zaghari-Ratcliffe's MP told - The Guardian (November 15, 2021 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband ending hunger strike after 21 days - BBC (November 13, 2021 UK tells Iran that sanctions prevent payment of £400m debt - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 Why an old £400m debt to Iran stands in way of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 'We should pay debt': Jeremy Hunt says £400m owed to Iran is not ransom money - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 After 17 days of hunger strike, I'm still trying to save Nazanin - The Guardian (November 9, 2021 Richard Ratcliffe on hunger strike: 'There's no plan to get Nazanin out' - The Guardian (November 5, 2021 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband begins new hunger strike in London - BBC (October 24, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe?s husband hits out at government handling of case - The Guardian (October 16, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: British-Iranian aid worker loses court appeal in Iran - BBC (October 16, 2021) RAF intelligence base linked to US drone strike on Iranian general Qassem Soleimani - The Guardian (October 2, 2021) Britain must repay £400m debt and lift sanctions, Iran tells Liz Truss - The Guardian (September 23, 2021) My dad, held hostage in Iran - BBC (September 20, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe campaign urges sanctions against 10 Iranians - The Guardian (September 19, 2021) UK ambassador angers Iran with 'insulting' embassy photo gaffe - The Guardian (August 12, 2021) UK condemns Iran's sentencing of British-Iranian national - Reuters (August 6, 2021) UK summons Iranian envoy over tanker attack - BBC (August 2, 2021) 'Highly likely' Iran was behind fatal oil tanker attack - Dominic Raab - The Guardian (August 1, 2021) Iranian hackers posed as British-based academic - BBC (July 13, 2021) Biden would not bar UK paying Iran debt to secure Nazanin's release - Antony Blinken - Evening Standard (May 6, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK and Iran in talks over debt but 'unlinked' to case - BBC (May 3, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran treatment 'amounts to torture', says Dominic Raab - BBC (May 2, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe sentenced to a year in Iran prison - BBC (April 26, 2021) Court hearing over UK's £400m tank deal debt to Iran postponed - The Guardian (April 19, 2021) Defence secretary says Britain must honour Iran debt linked to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case - Times Online (March 22, 2021) 'Hostage diplomacy' behind Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's Kafkaesque ordeal - The Guardian (March 14, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Tehran court on new charge - BBC (March 14, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe must be released 'permanently', says PM - BBC (March 8, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe released but faces new court date in Iran - BBC (March 7, 2021) Richard Ratcliffe still unsure if wife will be released on Sunday - The Guardian (March 6, 2021) Briton held in Iran 'completely shut off' after losing phone access - The Guardian (February 19, 2021) Kameel Ahmady: British-Iranian academic facing jail escapes Iran - BBC (February 3, 2021) Foreign Office tells Richard Ratcliffe to keep quiet as wife's release date nears - The Guardian (January 31, 2021) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK 'starting to look weak' over failure to protect citizens, says Hunt - The Guardian (December 29, 2020) 'Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a hostage: the government needs to call her that' - The Guardian (December 20, 2020) MPs say UK government strategy on Iran prisoners not working - The Guardian (December 15, 2020) British-Iranian academic sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran - The Guardian (December 13, 2020) Tehran exchanges Kylie Moore-Gilbert for three Iranians jailed abroad - The Guardian (November 25, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe avoids being returned to jail - The Guardian (November 2, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK expresses 'grave concern' over fresh court proceedings - The Guardian (October 29, 2020) Iran moves detained academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert back to Tehran prison - The Guardian (October 29, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to stand trial on fresh charges in Iran next week - The Guardian (October 28, 2020) Hopes for Kylie Moore-Gilbert after detained academic moved out of Iran's Qarchak prison - The Guardian (October 24, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Sentence served but no sign of freedom - Sky News (September 29, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe files report of Revolutionary Guards harassment - The Guardian (September 22, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe speaks of ordeal after trial postponement - The Guardian (September 13, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: New charge 'a political game', says husband - BBC (September 9, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe faces new charge, Iranian media reports - The Guardian (September 8, 2020) Will Britain Follow In America's Footsteps And Repay Iran For Undelivered Military Hardware? - Forbes (September 7, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK acknowledges debt owed to Iran over Shah's tank order - The Guardian (September 4, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert's every step being followed inside prison in Iran - The Guardian (September 2, 2020) UK delays Zaghari-Ratcliffe release for fear of offending Trump, lawyers claim - The Guardian (August 25, 2020) Mike Pompeo: 'I regret' Britain's Iran sanctions vote - Spectator (August 20, 2020) British spy's account sheds light on role in 1953 Iranian coup - The Guardian (August 17, 2020) Explanation of Vote on Non-proliferation (Iran) resolution - GOV.UK (August 14, 2020) Iran jails 'British spy': Former business associate of Tessa Jowell's husband - Daily Mail (August 11, 2020) Two Iranians sentenced to 10 years for spying - BBC (August 11, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert in good health in Iran with access to medical treatment and books, Dfat says - The Guardian (August 4, 2020) MI6, the coup in Iran that changed the Middle East, and the cover-up - The Guardian (August 2, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert: Lecturer jailed in Iran moved to remote prison - BBC (July 28, 2020) 'Radical change' needed for UK-Iran bilateral relations - Cranfield University PR (July 21, 2020) John Bolton: Boris Johnson 'playing Trump like a fiddle' - Politico (June 25, 2020) 1953 Iran coup: How a garbled message from 'Queen Elizabeth' bolstered the overthrow of Mosaddegh's government - The Independent (June 13, 2020) A message from 'Queen Elizabeth' to the shah played role in CIA 1953 coup in Iran, documentary says - NBC News (June 7, 2020) Revolutionary Guards block clemency for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (May 30, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to stay out of prison until Iran decides on fate - The Guardian (May 20, 2020) UK rejects plea for ambassador to visit Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Iran - The Guardian (May 17, 2020) Fears rise Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe may be returned to Iran jail - The Guardian (May 5, 2020) Threat to blow up besieged Iran embassy - archive, 1980 - The Guardian (May 1, 2020) In pictures: Iranian embassy siege in London - BBC (April 30, 2020) Iran extends Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's prison release by month - The Guardian (April 21, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe waiting to hear if she must return to prison - The Guardian (April 18, 2020) Iran temporarily frees British resident Aras Amiri on furlough - Amnesty - Reuters (April 9, 2020) Coronavirus relief workers appeal for release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (April 7, 2020) Iranian dual national Foroughi returns to UK, nine years after arrest - Reuters (April 1, 2020) INSTEX successfully concludes first transaction - GOV.UK (March 31, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe under consideration for clemency - The Guardian (March 29, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe's leave from prison to be extended by two weeks - The Guardian (March 28, 2020) UK presses US to ease Iran sanctions to help fight coronavirus - The Guardian (March 18, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe freed temporarily from Iranian prison - The Guardian (March 17, 2020) Iran's ambassador to UK reveals bilateral talks over £400m debt - The Guardian (March 15, 2020) UN experts demand Iran ceases harassing BBC Persian staff - BBC (March 11, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's health improves despite coronavirus fears - The Guardian (March 9, 2020) British ambassador returns to Iran after brief arrest last month - Reuters (February 6, 2020) Britain complicit in the crushing of Iran's Tudeh party - Qantara (February 5, 2020) Britain's Prince Charles wants to visit Iran: Sunday Times - Reuters (January 25, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband urges PM to be tough with Iran - The Guardian (January 23, 2020) The Zaghari-Ratcliffes' ordeal: a story of British arrogance, secret arms deals and Whitehall infighting - The Guardian (January 23, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: pay £400m debt in aid, urges husband - The Guardian (January 22, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: court hearing over £400m Iran debt may hasten release - The Guardian (January 21, 2020) How Britain helped Iran's Islamic regime destroy the left-wing opposition - Daily Maverick (January 21, 2020) Jailed British-Australian Kylie Moore-Gilbert rejected Iran's offer to work as a spy - The Guardian (January 20, 2020) Rob Macaire: Britain's ambassador to Iran heads back to UK - Sky News (January 15, 2020) Iran warns UK against 'any new mistake' after ambassador arrest - Sky News (January 14, 2020) Boris Johnson: PM urges Trump to come up with new Iran plan - BBC (January 14, 2020) UK summons Iran ambassador over diplomat's 'unacceptable' arrest - BBC (January 13, 2020) Iran regime 'at a crossroads', warns Raab - BBC (January 13, 2020) There's a chance for change in the Middle East and Britain has a role to play - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Dominic Raab warns Iran of 'pariah' status after ambassador arrest - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Iran summons UK ambassador amid row over his arrest - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Britain condemns Tehran's arrest of UK ambassador - BBC (January 12, 2020) UK ambassador arrested in Tehran - BBC (January 11, 2020) Boris Johnson urges Iran president to end military action - The Guardian (January 9, 2020) Iran attack: How much influence does UK have in US-Iran crisis? - BBC (January 8, 2020) Qasem Soleimani: PM 'will not lament' Iranian general's death - BBC (January 5, 2020) Boris Johnson: Qassem Suleimani was threat to all our interests - The Guardian (January 5, 2020) The Guardian view on Trump's war: UK goes from poodle to lapdog? - The Guardian (January 5, 2020) Royal Navy vessels sent to protect shipping in Strait of Hormuz - The Guardian (January 4, 2020) Boris Johnson's silence on Suleimani assassination is 'deafening' say critics - The Guardian (January 4, 2020) Foreign Office hardens Iran and Iraq travel advice - BBC (January 4, 2020) Revealed: David Miliband called off SAS strike on Iranian General Qassim Soleimani in 2007 - Telegraph (January 3, 2020) Qasem Soleimani: Boris Johnson not told about US airstrike - BBC (January 3, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Daughter of Briton jailed in Iran back in UK - BBC (October 11, 2019) Australian-UK blogger couple freed from Iran jail - BBC (October 5, 2019) Iranian spying charge 'preposterous', prisoner's wife says - BBC (September 27, 2019) Stena Impero: Iran 'still investigating' seized British tanker - BBC (September 25, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe must be released, Johnson tells Iran's president - BBC (September 24, 2019) Kylie Moore-Gilbert named as British-Australian academic held in Iran - BBC (September 14, 2019) Britain-Iran relationship caught up in mutual blame game - The Guardian (September 11, 2019) Iran 'convicts British-Iranian dual national of spying for Israel' - BBC (August 27, 2019) Aras Amiri: British Council worker jailed in Iran a 'bargaining chip' - BBC (August 21, 2019) Kameel Ahmady: British-Iranian academic 'arrested in Iran' - BBC (August 14, 2019) UK joins US in mission to protect oil tankers in Gulf - The Guardian (August 5, 2019) Iran ambassador's apparent olive branch could ease Gulf tensions - Sky News (July 31, 2019) Royal Marines used brute force, says tanker captain - BBC (July 30, 2019) Court ruling over tanks debt deals new blow to UK-Iran relations - The Guardian (July 26, 2019) Iran hints at ship swap with UK amid de-escalation efforts - The Guardian (July 24, 2019) Prime mover: Johnson and the UK-Iran crisis - ECFR (July 24, 2019) The 'Special' U.S.-U.K. Relationship is Bruised After Trump Officials Left U.K. Out of Iran Strike Planning - Time Magazine (July 23, 2019) Iran-UK tanker standoff: What is the next step for Britain? - DW (July 23, 2019) UK to seek European maritime mission to counter Iran's ' illegal acts of piracy' - The Guardian (July 22, 2019) Iran tanker seizure: May to chair Cobra meeting on crisis - BBC (July 22, 2019) The English Job by Jack Straw review - portrait of Iran's fixation with Britain - The Guardian (July 22, 2019) Jeremy Hunt under pressure to back plan for Gulf force as Iran digs in - The Guardian (July 21, 2019) Ministers 'considering freezing Iran assets' following tanker seizure - ITV (July 21, 2019) Tanker seizure: Jeremy Hunt urges Iran to release Stena Impero - BBC (July 20, 2019) UK to step up its military presence in Gulf amid crisis with Iran - The Guardian (July 12, 2019) Is the US nudging Britain into dangerous waters with Iran? - The Guardian (July 11, 2019) UK ships in Gulf on high alert after Royal Navy trains guns on Iranian vessels - The Guardian (July 11, 2019) Iranian boats 'tried to intercept British tanker' - BBC (July 11, 2019) Iran summons UK ambassador in tanker seizure row - BBC (July 4, 2019) The heedless drift towards war with Iran shames Britain - The Guardian (June 28, 2019) Will the UK's new prime minister take Trump's side on Iran? - Atlantic Council (June 23, 2019) Gulf of Oman: Iran protests to UK ambassador - BBC (June 16, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe begins new hunger strike - BBC (June 15, 2019) Aras Amiri: British Council names employee jailed by Iran - BBC (May 14, 2019) Iran 'jails British Council worker for spying for UK' - BBC (May 13, 2019) Iran accused of 'playing games' over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (April 27, 2019) Iranian woman in Australian jail drawn into Zaghari-Ratcliffe diplomatic dispute - The Guardian (April 25, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran offers prisoner swap - BBC (April 24, 2019) Iran rejects UK claim of diplomatic status for Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (March 8, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iranian-Briton to get diplomatic protection - BBC (March 7, 2019) Jeremy Hunt warns of Middle East 'first world war risk' on Iran visit - The Guardian (November 19, 2018) Hunt to appeal for release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe on Iran visit - The Guardian (November 18, 2018) Foreign Office advises dual UK-Iranian nationals against all but 'essential' travel to Iran - The Independent (September 19, 2018) US ambassador says UK should join Trump and put pressure on Iran - The Guardian (August 12, 2018) More people with UK links arrested in Iran - BBC (May 2, 2018) Abbas Edalat: Iran confirms arrest of British professor - BBC (April 29, 2018) BBC urges UN to act over harassment of journalists in Iran - The Guardian (March 11, 2018) British dual citizen sentenced to six-year jail term, Iran reveals - Reuters (March 11, 2018) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: question over delay in return of jailed British-Iranian - The Guardian (March 10, 2018) Hopes rise for release of Briton jailed in Iran after court hearing postponed - The Guardian (December 10, 2017) Johnson's talks on jailed Briton in Iran 'worthwhile' - BBC (December 10, 2017) Boris Johnson begins Iran talks over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (December 9, 2017) Britain preparing plan to transfer £400m to Iran as Boris Johnson vows to do everything to bring home Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Telegraph (November 15, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Government considers diplomatic protection - BBC (November 15, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case: Boris Johnson apologises over remarks - BBC (November 13, 2017) Boris Johnson to travel to US in bid to save Iran nuclear deal - The Guardian (November 2, 2017) Iran BBC complaint: UN urges Tehran to stop harassing staff - BBC (October 25, 2017) Iran to blame for cyber-attack on MPs' emails - British intelligence - The Guardian (October 13, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: More charges for mum in Iran - BBC (October 9, 2017) Tensions surface between UK and US over Iran nuclear deal - The Guardian (September 14, 2017) UK warned it needs new Middle East policy that does not rely on Trump - The Guardian (May 2, 2017) May refuses Netanyahu's call to impose new sanctions on Iran - The Guardian (February 6, 2017) Benjamin Netanyahu to press Theresa May for tougher line on Iran - The Guardian (February 5, 2017) Theresa May 'clear-eyed' over Iran threat - BBC (December 6, 2016) UK-Iranian mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe 'jailed on secret charges' - BBC (September 9, 2016) UK appoints first ambassador to Iran in five years - BBC (September 5, 2016) British Airways to resume direct flights to Iran - BBC (September 1, 2016) Iran accuses dual national of spying for British intelligence - BBC (August 16, 2016) May presses Iran over detained Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Reuters (August 9, 2016) Family of charity worker detained in Iran writes to foreign secretary - Press Association (July 26, 2016) Hopes for British-Iranian mother in jail in Iran - BBC (June 16, 2016) Iran accuses British mother, Nazanin Ratcliffe, of leading 'hostile network' to 'overthrow' regime - Telegraph (June 15, 2016) British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe detained for a month 'without charge' - BBC (May 9, 2016) Prince Charles 'plans' historic royal trip to Iran - The Independent (March 27, 2016) Iran and the UK: Bridging the Gulf - British Council (March 2016) Can Iran and the UK really bury the hatchet? - BBC (August 26, 2015) In Iran's eyes, Britain is still the 'old fox' - Telegraph (August 25, 2015) Philip Hammond declares new chapter with Iran in search for end to Syrian war - The Guardian (August 24, 2015) Iran-UK relations: 12 moments in a troubled history - The Guardian (August 23, 2015) Iran reopens embassy in London as Britain does the same in Tehran - The Guardian (August 23, 2015) British embassy in Tehran reopens four years after closure - BBC (August 23, 2015) Foreign Office relaxes Iran advice for British nationals - BBC (July 25, 2015) Tehran embassy re-opening will test troubled UK-Iran relations - The Guardian (July 17, 2015) UK hopes to reopen embassy in Iran by end of year, says Philip Hammond - The Guardian (July 15, 2015) Foreign Office 'did not stop Iraq making chemical weapons' - The Guardian (July 2, 2015) British-Iranian woman jailed over volleyball game sees charges dropped - The Guardian (April 2, 2015) Ghoncheh Ghavami: Charges dropped - but volleyball Briton must stay - The Independent (March 26, 2015) Volleyball woman Ghoncheh Ghavami out of Iran prison - BBC (November 23, 2014) Ghoncheh Ghavami's family devastated by year's jail sentence in Iran - video - The Guardian (November 3, 2014) Leaders of UK and Iran meet for first time since 1979 Islamic revolution - The Guardian (September 24, 2014) David Cameron to meet Iran leader over Isis campaign - The Guardian (September 22, 2014) UK to re-open Iran embassy says Hague - BBC (June 17, 2014) Tehran ready to offer cash for British embassy attack - but no apology - The Guardian (May 18, 2014) UK and Iran discuss re-opening embassies - Telegraph (April 28, 2014) UK and Iran agree to re-establish direct diplomatic relations - The Guardian (February 20, 2014) Iran's largest private bank sues UK government for $4bn damages - BBC (February 17, 2014) Khamenei says US 'wouldn't hesitate' to topple Iranian regime if it could - Reuters (February 9, 2014) Bank Mellat to serve UK government with damages claim of up to £1bn - The Guardian (February 4, 2014) Jack Straw 'optimistic' over Iran future after Tehran visit - BBC (January 10, 2014) Iran claims to have captured MI6 spy - BBC (December 14, 2013) Iranian envoy to make first UK visit - BBC (December 11, 2013) New UK envoy Ajay Sharma to make Iran visit - BBC (December 2, 2013) Cameron makes first call to Iran's Rouhani - BBC (November 19, 2013) UK and Iran name charges d'affaires - BBC (November 11, 2013) Britain and Iran pave way for reopening of London and Tehran embassies - The Guardian (October 8, 2013) UK open to improving London-Tehran ties, says William Hague - The Guardian (July 31, 2013) Labour: UK 'missing opportunity' to engage with Iran - BBC (July 26, 2013) UK not attending Iran president's inauguration - The Guardian (July 24, 2013) Supreme court quashes Iran bank sanctions and criticises secret hearings - The Guardian (June 19, 2013) Iran accuses Britain of operating spy ring to undermine elections - The Independent (June 3, 2013) Iran deputy speaker condemns 2011 attack on UK embassy - BBC (April 5, 2013) Britain was wrong to close Tehran embassy, says David Miliband - The Guardian (January 31, 2013) Iran military action not 'right course at this time', Downing Street says - The Guardian (October 26, 2012) Britain rejects US request to use UK bases in nuclear standoff with Iran - The Guardian (October 25, 2012) Prime Minister David Cameron calls on Israel not to launch unilateral attack on Iran - The Independent (October 15, 2012) Storming British embassy in Iran was not right, says supreme leader - The Guardian (August 7, 2012) UK defence chiefs prepare for conflict with Iran over nuclear programme - The Guardian (May 23, 2012) Flynt Leverett: Going to Tehran - WPSU (May 2, 2013) UK 'will keep up pressure on Iran' - BBC (April 17, 2012) Hague condemns Tehran for blocking Foreign Office website - BBC (March 18, 2012) Iran accused of intimidating BBC Persian staff - BBC (February 3, 2012) Iran blocks UK Foreign Office website - BBC (December 22, 2011) British 'most secret' invasion plans seized at Iran embassy - 70 years on - The Guardian (December 5, 2011) Iran diplomats to leave UK after Tehran embassy attack - BBC (December 2, 2011) Coup that colours Anglo-Iranian relations - The Guardian (December 1, 2011) UK to expel all Iranian diplomats over embassy attack - BBC (November 30, 2011) UK withdraws diplomatic staff from Iran after attack - BBC (November 30, 2011) Hague says Iran will face 'serious consequences' over embassy attack - The Guardian (November 29, 2011) UK warns Iran after embassy stormed - BBC (November 29, 2011) Iran protesters storm UK embassy in Tehran - BBC (November 29, 2011) Iran parliament votes to downgrade relations with UK - BBC (November 27, 2011) Iranian MPs approve bill to reduce British diplomatic ties with Tehran - The Guardian (November 23, 2011) UK military steps up plans for Iran attack amid fresh nuclear fears - The Guardian (November 2, 2011) Blair criticises Iran and Syria - BBC (September 8, 2011) David Cameron: Britain caused many of the world's problems - Telegraph (April 5, 2011) David Cameron plans link-up with US and France for new sanctions on Iran - The Guardian (February 23, 2011) WikiLeaks cables: UK blocked $60m arms deal over fears of Iran link - The Guardian (February 23, 2011) UK's Thatcher Appealed To Iran Over US Hostages - AP (December 30, 2010) WikiLeaks cables: Iranian TV channel faced UK sanction over jamming row - The Guardian (December 21, 2010) Iranian politicians call for UK ambassador recall - BBC (December 13, 2010) WikiLeaks cables: US pressured British regulator to act against Iranian banks - The Guardian (December 13, 2010) US embassy cables: Foreign office talks tough on Iran - The Guardian (December 13, 2010) Pope helped to free British sailors held by Iran, WikiLeaks cables show - The Guardian (December 10, 2010) Briton teaches US diplomats how to talk to Iran - The Guardian (November 28, 2010) Iran lays claim to British Museum's Cyrus Cylinder - The Guardian (September 15, 2010) Cyrus Cylinder loaned to Iran by British Museum - BBC (September 10, 2010) Sleeping with the Enemy: BP's Deals with Iran - Time Magazine (June 16, 2010) Tony Blair slated for Iran threat claim - Times Online (January 30, 2010) Iran looks again at links with Britain - The Independent (January 18, 2010) National archives: how Britain told deposed Shah of Iran to stay away - The Guardian (December 29, 2009) British sailors seized in Iran apologise for families' ordeal - The Guardian (December 4, 2009) Skipper of UK-crewed yacht admits Iran waters 'mistake' - BBC (December 2, 2009) UK yacht crew detained by Iranian navy - BBC (November 30, 2009) UK to press Iran on embassy staff - BBC (July 5, 2009) UK seeks Iran trial clarification - BBC (July 4, 2009) UK 'deeply concerned' at arrests - BBC (June 28, 2009) Britain and Iran's fraught history - BBC (June 24, 2009) Iran attacks against UK tap into centuries of suspicion - CNN (June 24, 2009) UK expels two Iranian diplomats - BBC (June 23, 2009) Relations between old adversaries Britain and Iran hit new low - The Guardian (June 23, 2009) BBC Bias and the Iranian Revolution - BBC (March 23, 2009) British Council in Iran 'illegal' - BBC (February 5, 2009) British fear US commander is beating the drum for Iran strikes - Telegraph (April 5, 2008) MPs urging direct US-Iran talks - BBC (March 2, 2008) British GCHQ eavesdropping played role in US intelligence U-turn on Iran - The Guardian (December 6, 2007) Iran accuses Britain of digging tunnel to ferry spies into embassy - The Guardian (August 11, 2007) Brown evades question over Iran - BBC (May 26, 2007) Iran to release British sailors tomorrow - The Guardian (April 4, 2007) A bitter legacy - The Guardian (March 30, 2007) Fury as Iran shows footage of captured sailors on television - The Guardian (March 29, 2007) UK/Iran bilateral links suspended - BBC (March 28, 2007) Iranians blame UK for all that goes awry - The Guardian (March 25, 2007) Sailors fall foul of emerging regional superpower - The Guardian (March 24, 2007) Foreign Office demands Tehran frees sailors - The Guardian (March 23, 2007) No plans to attack Iran - Blair - BBC (February 6, 2007) Iran a 'major threat', says Blair - BBC (December 12, 2006) Britain took part in mock Iran invasion - The Guardian (April 15, 2006) UK dismisses talk of Iran attack - BBC (April 9, 2006) Iran calls for UK Iraq pull-out - BBC (February 17, 2006) Iran accuses UK of bombing link - BBC (January 25, 2006) Blair rejects action against Iran and Syria - Telegraph (January 23, 2006) Blair threatens UN action on Iran - BBC (January 11, 2006) Iran nuclear move 'concerns UK' - BBC (January 10, 2006) Iran bombs link: retraction or non-retraction? - BBC (January 10, 2006) Was Blair right to warn Iran? - BBC (October 7, 2005) Blair warns Iran over Iraq bombs - BBC (October 6, 2005) Tehran students attack UK embassy - BBC (September 28, 2005) Military action against Iran 'inconceivable', says Straw - The Guardian (September 28, 2005) Lib Dems challenge Blair to spell out Iran plans - The Guardian (April 23, 2005) Iran must beware of 'cunning' Britain in nuclear talks, says cleric - AFP (February 4, 2005) Can Straw tread softly while US turns its eye on Iran? - The Guardian (January 28, 2005) Straw emollient on Iran rift after US talks - The Guardian (January 25, 2005) BP chief's remarks enrage Iran - The Guardian (January 25, 2005) U.S.: British Foreign Secretary Says U.S. Committed To Diplomatic Approach Toward Iran - RFE (January 25, 2005) Straw flies to US for talks on Iran - The Guardian (January 24, 2005) Britain outlines case against attack on Iran: report - AFP (January 23, 2005) Straw: war on Iran 'inconceivable'- The Guardian (November 5, 2004) Straw defends diplomacy with Iran - BBC (July 4, 2004) Attack Iran, US chief ordered British - Telegraph (June 30, 2004) We must support Iran's evolution - The Guardian (June 27, 2004) Iran frees eight British sailors - The Guardian (June 25, 2004) Talks resume on crew held in Iran - 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But why now? And why did it take so long? - The Guardian (March 16, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori on way back to UK, Liz Truss confirms - The Guardian (March 16, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has had UK passport returned, says MP - The Guardian (March 15, 2022) Iranian ambassador to UK removed from post over hijab incident - The Guardian (February 27, 2022) Truss tells Iran she hopes UK will soon be able to repay £400m debt - The Guardian (February 15, 2022) Zaghari-Ratcliffe 'angry at her life being stolen' after deal for release collapses - The Guardian (February 13, 2022) BBC accuses Iran of escalating harassment of staff - BBC (February 10, 2022) Aras Amiri: British Council says jailed employee freed by Iran - BBC (January 12, 2022) Women stage global fast to pressure UK over Nazanin Zagari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (December 20, 2021) Iran says UK is discussing how to repay £400m debt - The Guardian (December 10, 2021) Britain and Israel to sign trade and defence deal - The Guardian (November 28, 2021 Don't mention UK's £400m debt to Iran in Commons, Zaghari-Ratcliffe's MP told - The Guardian (November 15, 2021 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband ending hunger strike after 21 days - BBC (November 13, 2021 UK tells Iran that sanctions prevent payment of £400m debt - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 Why an old £400m debt to Iran stands in way of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 'We should pay debt': Jeremy Hunt says £400m owed to Iran is not ransom money - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 After 17 days of hunger strike, I'm still trying to save Nazanin - The Guardian (November 9, 2021 Richard Ratcliffe on hunger strike: 'There's no plan to get Nazanin out' - The Guardian (November 5, 2021 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband begins new hunger strike in London - BBC (October 24, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe?s husband hits out at government handling of case - The Guardian (October 16, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: British-Iranian aid worker loses court appeal in Iran - BBC (October 16, 2021) RAF intelligence base linked to US drone strike on Iranian general Qassem Soleimani - The Guardian (October 2, 2021) Britain must repay £400m debt and lift sanctions, Iran tells Liz Truss - The Guardian (September 23, 2021) My dad, held hostage in Iran - BBC (September 20, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe campaign urges sanctions against 10 Iranians - The Guardian (September 19, 2021) UK ambassador angers Iran with 'insulting' embassy photo gaffe - The Guardian (August 12, 2021) UK condemns Iran's sentencing of British-Iranian national - Reuters (August 6, 2021) UK summons Iranian envoy over tanker attack - BBC (August 2, 2021) 'Highly likely' Iran was behind fatal oil tanker attack - Dominic Raab - The Guardian (August 1, 2021) Iranian hackers posed as British-based academic - BBC (July 13, 2021) Biden would not bar UK paying Iran debt to secure Nazanin's release - Antony Blinken - Evening Standard (May 6, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK and Iran in talks over debt but 'unlinked' to case - BBC (May 3, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran treatment 'amounts to torture', says Dominic Raab - BBC (May 2, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe sentenced to a year in Iran prison - BBC (April 26, 2021) Court hearing over UK's £400m tank deal debt to Iran postponed - The Guardian (April 19, 2021) Defence secretary says Britain must honour Iran debt linked to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case - Times Online (March 22, 2021) 'Hostage diplomacy' behind Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's Kafkaesque ordeal - The Guardian (March 14, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Tehran court on new charge - BBC (March 14, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe must be released 'permanently', says PM - BBC (March 8, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe released but faces new court date in Iran - BBC (March 7, 2021) Richard Ratcliffe still unsure if wife will be released on Sunday - The Guardian (March 6, 2021) Briton held in Iran 'completely shut off' after losing phone access - The Guardian (February 19, 2021) Kameel Ahmady: British-Iranian academic facing jail escapes Iran - BBC (February 3, 2021) Foreign Office tells Richard Ratcliffe to keep quiet as wife's release date nears - The Guardian (January 31, 2021) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK 'starting to look weak' over failure to protect citizens, says Hunt - The Guardian (December 29, 2020) 'Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a hostage: the government needs to call her that' - The Guardian (December 20, 2020) MPs say UK government strategy on Iran prisoners not working - The Guardian (December 15, 2020) British-Iranian academic sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran - The Guardian (December 13, 2020) Tehran exchanges Kylie Moore-Gilbert for three Iranians jailed abroad - The Guardian (November 25, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe avoids being returned to jail - The Guardian (November 2, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK expresses 'grave concern' over fresh court proceedings - The Guardian (October 29, 2020) Iran moves detained academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert back to Tehran prison - The Guardian (October 29, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to stand trial on fresh charges in Iran next week - The Guardian (October 28, 2020) Hopes for Kylie Moore-Gilbert after detained academic moved out of Iran's Qarchak prison - The Guardian (October 24, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Sentence served but no sign of freedom - Sky News (September 29, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe files report of Revolutionary Guards harassment - The Guardian (September 22, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe speaks of ordeal after trial postponement - The Guardian (September 13, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: New charge 'a political game', says husband - BBC (September 9, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe faces new charge, Iranian media reports - The Guardian (September 8, 2020) Will Britain Follow In America's Footsteps And Repay Iran For Undelivered Military Hardware? - Forbes (September 7, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK acknowledges debt owed to Iran over Shah's tank order - The Guardian (September 4, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert's every step being followed inside prison in Iran - The Guardian (September 2, 2020) UK delays Zaghari-Ratcliffe release for fear of offending Trump, lawyers claim - The Guardian (August 25, 2020) Mike Pompeo: 'I regret' Britain's Iran sanctions vote - Spectator (August 20, 2020) British spy's account sheds light on role in 1953 Iranian coup - The Guardian (August 17, 2020) Explanation of Vote on Non-proliferation (Iran) resolution - GOV.UK (August 14, 2020) Iran jails 'British spy': Former business associate of Tessa Jowell's husband - Daily Mail (August 11, 2020) Two Iranians sentenced to 10 years for spying - BBC (August 11, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert in good health in Iran with access to medical treatment and books, Dfat says - The Guardian (August 4, 2020) MI6, the coup in Iran that changed the Middle East, and the cover-up - The Guardian (August 2, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert: Lecturer jailed in Iran moved to remote prison - BBC (July 28, 2020) 'Radical change' needed for UK-Iran bilateral relations - Cranfield University PR (July 21, 2020) John Bolton: Boris Johnson 'playing Trump like a fiddle' - Politico (June 25, 2020) 1953 Iran coup: How a garbled message from 'Queen Elizabeth' bolstered the overthrow of Mosaddegh's government - The Independent (June 13, 2020) A message from 'Queen Elizabeth' to the shah played role in CIA 1953 coup in Iran, documentary says - NBC News (June 7, 2020) Revolutionary Guards block clemency for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (May 30, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to stay out of prison until Iran decides on fate - The Guardian (May 20, 2020) UK rejects plea for ambassador to visit Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Iran - The Guardian (May 17, 2020) Fears rise Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe may be returned to Iran jail - The Guardian (May 5, 2020) Threat to blow up besieged Iran embassy - archive, 1980 - The Guardian (May 1, 2020) In pictures: Iranian embassy siege in London - BBC (April 30, 2020) Iran extends Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's prison release by month - The Guardian (April 21, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe waiting to hear if she must return to prison - The Guardian (April 18, 2020) Iran temporarily frees British resident Aras Amiri on furlough - Amnesty - Reuters (April 9, 2020) Coronavirus relief workers appeal for release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (April 7, 2020) Iranian dual national Foroughi returns to UK, nine years after arrest - Reuters (April 1, 2020) INSTEX successfully concludes first transaction - GOV.UK (March 31, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe under consideration for clemency - The Guardian (March 29, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe's leave from prison to be extended by two weeks - The Guardian (March 28, 2020) UK presses US to ease Iran sanctions to help fight coronavirus - The Guardian (March 18, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe freed temporarily from Iranian prison - The Guardian (March 17, 2020) Iran's ambassador to UK reveals bilateral talks over £400m debt - The Guardian (March 15, 2020) UN experts demand Iran ceases harassing BBC Persian staff - BBC (March 11, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's health improves despite coronavirus fears - The Guardian (March 9, 2020) British ambassador returns to Iran after brief arrest last month - Reuters (February 6, 2020) Britain complicit in the crushing of Iran's Tudeh party - Qantara (February 5, 2020) Britain's Prince Charles wants to visit Iran: Sunday Times - Reuters (January 25, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband urges PM to be tough with Iran - The Guardian (January 23, 2020) The Zaghari-Ratcliffes' ordeal: a story of British arrogance, secret arms deals and Whitehall infighting - The Guardian (January 23, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: pay £400m debt in aid, urges husband - The Guardian (January 22, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: court hearing over £400m Iran debt may hasten release - The Guardian (January 21, 2020) How Britain helped Iran's Islamic regime destroy the left-wing opposition - Daily Maverick (January 21, 2020) Jailed British-Australian Kylie Moore-Gilbert rejected Iran's offer to work as a spy - The Guardian (January 20, 2020) Rob Macaire: Britain's ambassador to Iran heads back to UK - Sky News (January 15, 2020) Iran warns UK against 'any new mistake' after ambassador arrest - Sky News (January 14, 2020) Boris Johnson: PM urges Trump to come up with new Iran plan - BBC (January 14, 2020) UK summons Iran ambassador over diplomat's 'unacceptable' arrest - BBC (January 13, 2020) Iran regime 'at a crossroads', warns Raab - BBC (January 13, 2020) There's a chance for change in the Middle East and Britain has a role to play - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Dominic Raab warns Iran of 'pariah' status after ambassador arrest - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Iran summons UK ambassador amid row over his arrest - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Britain condemns Tehran's arrest of UK ambassador - BBC (January 12, 2020) UK ambassador arrested in Tehran - BBC (January 11, 2020) Boris Johnson urges Iran president to end military action - The Guardian (January 9, 2020) Iran attack: How much influence does UK have in US-Iran crisis? - BBC (January 8, 2020) Qasem Soleimani: PM 'will not lament' Iranian general's death - BBC (January 5, 2020) Boris Johnson: Qassem Suleimani was threat to all our interests - The Guardian (January 5, 2020) The Guardian view on Trump's war: UK goes from poodle to lapdog? - The Guardian (January 5, 2020) Royal Navy vessels sent to protect shipping in Strait of Hormuz - The Guardian (January 4, 2020) Boris Johnson's silence on Suleimani assassination is 'deafening' say critics - The Guardian (January 4, 2020) Foreign Office hardens Iran and Iraq travel advice - BBC (January 4, 2020) Revealed: David Miliband called off SAS strike on Iranian General Qassim Soleimani in 2007 - Telegraph (January 3, 2020) Qasem Soleimani: Boris Johnson not told about US airstrike - BBC (January 3, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Daughter of Briton jailed in Iran back in UK - BBC (October 11, 2019) Australian-UK blogger couple freed from Iran jail - BBC (October 5, 2019) Iranian spying charge 'preposterous', prisoner's wife says - BBC (September 27, 2019) Stena Impero: Iran 'still investigating' seized British tanker - BBC (September 25, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe must be released, Johnson tells Iran's president - BBC (September 24, 2019) Kylie Moore-Gilbert named as British-Australian academic held in Iran - BBC (September 14, 2019) Britain-Iran relationship caught up in mutual blame game - The Guardian (September 11, 2019) Iran 'convicts British-Iranian dual national of spying for Israel' - BBC (August 27, 2019) Aras Amiri: British Council worker jailed in Iran a 'bargaining chip' - BBC (August 21, 2019) Kameel Ahmady: British-Iranian academic 'arrested in Iran' - BBC (August 14, 2019) UK joins US in mission to protect oil tankers in Gulf - The Guardian (August 5, 2019) Iran ambassador's apparent olive branch could ease Gulf tensions - Sky News (July 31, 2019) Royal Marines used brute force, says tanker captain - BBC (July 30, 2019) Court ruling over tanks debt deals new blow to UK-Iran relations - The Guardian (July 26, 2019) Iran hints at ship swap with UK amid de-escalation efforts - The Guardian (July 24, 2019) Prime mover: Johnson and the UK-Iran crisis - ECFR (July 24, 2019) The 'Special' U.S.-U.K. Relationship is Bruised After Trump Officials Left U.K. Out of Iran Strike Planning - Time Magazine (July 23, 2019) Iran-UK tanker standoff: What is the next step for Britain? - DW (July 23, 2019) UK to seek European maritime mission to counter Iran's ' illegal acts of piracy' - The Guardian (July 22, 2019) Iran tanker seizure: May to chair Cobra meeting on crisis - BBC (July 22, 2019) The English Job by Jack Straw review - portrait of Iran's fixation with Britain - The Guardian (July 22, 2019) Jeremy Hunt under pressure to back plan for Gulf force as Iran digs in - The Guardian (July 21, 2019) Ministers 'considering freezing Iran assets' following tanker seizure - ITV (July 21, 2019) Tanker seizure: Jeremy Hunt urges Iran to release Stena Impero - BBC (July 20, 2019) UK to step up its military presence in Gulf amid crisis with Iran - The Guardian (July 12, 2019) Is the US nudging Britain into dangerous waters with Iran? - The Guardian (July 11, 2019) UK ships in Gulf on high alert after Royal Navy trains guns on Iranian vessels - The Guardian (July 11, 2019) Iranian boats 'tried to intercept British tanker' - BBC (July 11, 2019) Iran summons UK ambassador in tanker seizure row - BBC (July 4, 2019) The heedless drift towards war with Iran shames Britain - The Guardian (June 28, 2019) Will the UK's new prime minister take Trump's side on Iran? - Atlantic Council (June 23, 2019) Gulf of Oman: Iran protests to UK ambassador - BBC (June 16, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe begins new hunger strike - BBC (June 15, 2019) Aras Amiri: British Council names employee jailed by Iran - BBC (May 14, 2019) Iran 'jails British Council worker for spying for UK' - BBC (May 13, 2019) Iran accused of 'playing games' over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (April 27, 2019) Iranian woman in Australian jail drawn into Zaghari-Ratcliffe diplomatic dispute - The Guardian (April 25, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran offers prisoner swap - BBC (April 24, 2019) Iran rejects UK claim of diplomatic status for Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (March 8, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iranian-Briton to get diplomatic protection - BBC (March 7, 2019) Jeremy Hunt warns of Middle East 'first world war risk' on Iran visit - The Guardian (November 19, 2018) Hunt to appeal for release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe on Iran visit - The Guardian (November 18, 2018) Foreign Office advises dual UK-Iranian nationals against all but 'essential' travel to Iran - The Independent (September 19, 2018) US ambassador says UK should join Trump and put pressure on Iran - The Guardian (August 12, 2018) More people with UK links arrested in Iran - BBC (May 2, 2018) Abbas Edalat: Iran confirms arrest of British professor - BBC (April 29, 2018) BBC urges UN to act over harassment of journalists in Iran - The Guardian (March 11, 2018) British dual citizen sentenced to six-year jail term, Iran reveals - Reuters (March 11, 2018) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: question over delay in return of jailed British-Iranian - The Guardian (March 10, 2018) Hopes rise for release of Briton jailed in Iran after court hearing postponed - The Guardian (December 10, 2017) Johnson's talks on jailed Briton in Iran 'worthwhile' - BBC (December 10, 2017) Boris Johnson begins Iran talks over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (December 9, 2017) Britain preparing plan to transfer £400m to Iran as Boris Johnson vows to do everything to bring home Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Telegraph (November 15, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Government considers diplomatic protection - BBC (November 15, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case: Boris Johnson apologises over remarks - BBC (November 13, 2017) Boris Johnson to travel to US in bid to save Iran nuclear deal - The Guardian (November 2, 2017) Iran BBC complaint: UN urges Tehran to stop harassing staff - BBC (October 25, 2017) Iran to blame for cyber-attack on MPs' emails - British intelligence - The Guardian (October 13, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: More charges for mum in Iran - BBC (October 9, 2017) Tensions surface between UK and US over Iran nuclear deal - The Guardian (September 14, 2017) UK warned it needs new Middle East policy that does not rely on Trump - The Guardian (May 2, 2017) May refuses Netanyahu's call to impose new sanctions on Iran - The Guardian (February 6, 2017) Benjamin Netanyahu to press Theresa May for tougher line on Iran - The Guardian (February 5, 2017) Theresa May 'clear-eyed' over Iran threat - BBC (December 6, 2016) UK-Iranian mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe 'jailed on secret charges' - BBC (September 9, 2016) UK appoints first ambassador to Iran in five years - BBC (September 5, 2016) British Airways to resume direct flights to Iran - BBC (September 1, 2016) Iran accuses dual national of spying for British intelligence - BBC (August 16, 2016) May presses Iran over detained Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Reuters (August 9, 2016) Family of charity worker detained in Iran writes to foreign secretary - Press Association (July 26, 2016) Hopes for British-Iranian mother in jail in Iran - BBC (June 16, 2016) Iran accuses British mother, Nazanin Ratcliffe, of leading 'hostile network' to 'overthrow' regime - Telegraph (June 15, 2016) British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe detained for a month 'without charge' - BBC (May 9, 2016) Prince Charles 'plans' historic royal trip to Iran - The Independent (March 27, 2016) Iran and the UK: Bridging the Gulf - British Council (March 2016) Can Iran and the UK really bury the hatchet? - BBC (August 26, 2015) In Iran's eyes, Britain is still the 'old fox' - Telegraph (August 25, 2015) Philip Hammond declares new chapter with Iran in search for end to Syrian war - The Guardian (August 24, 2015) Iran-UK relations: 12 moments in a troubled history - The Guardian (August 23, 2015) Iran reopens embassy in London as Britain does the same in Tehran - The Guardian (August 23, 2015) British embassy in Tehran reopens four years after closure - BBC (August 23, 2015) Foreign Office relaxes Iran advice for British nationals - BBC (July 25, 2015) Tehran embassy re-opening will test troubled UK-Iran relations - The Guardian (July 17, 2015) UK hopes to reopen embassy in Iran by end of year, says Philip Hammond - The Guardian (July 15, 2015) Foreign Office 'did not stop Iraq making chemical weapons' - The Guardian (July 2, 2015) British-Iranian woman jailed over volleyball game sees charges dropped - The Guardian (April 2, 2015) Ghoncheh Ghavami: Charges dropped - but volleyball Briton must stay - The Independent (March 26, 2015) Volleyball woman Ghoncheh Ghavami out of Iran prison - BBC (November 23, 2014) Ghoncheh Ghavami's family devastated by year's jail sentence in Iran - video - The Guardian (November 3, 2014) Leaders of UK and Iran meet for first time since 1979 Islamic revolution - The Guardian (September 24, 2014) David Cameron to meet Iran leader over Isis campaign - The Guardian (September 22, 2014) UK to re-open Iran embassy says Hague - BBC (June 17, 2014) Tehran ready to offer cash for British embassy attack - but no apology - The Guardian (May 18, 2014) UK and Iran discuss re-opening embassies - Telegraph (April 28, 2014) UK and Iran agree to re-establish direct diplomatic relations - The Guardian (February 20, 2014) Iran's largest private bank sues UK government for $4bn damages - BBC (February 17, 2014) Khamenei says US 'wouldn't hesitate' to topple Iranian regime if it could - Reuters (February 9, 2014) Bank Mellat to serve UK government with damages claim of up to £1bn - The Guardian (February 4, 2014) Jack Straw 'optimistic' over Iran future after Tehran visit - BBC (January 10, 2014) Iran claims to have captured MI6 spy - BBC (December 14, 2013) Iranian envoy to make first UK visit - BBC (December 11, 2013) New UK envoy Ajay Sharma to make Iran visit - BBC (December 2, 2013) Cameron makes first call to Iran's Rouhani - BBC (November 19, 2013) UK and Iran name charges d'affaires - BBC (November 11, 2013) Britain and Iran pave way for reopening of London and Tehran embassies - The Guardian (October 8, 2013) UK open to improving London-Tehran ties, says William Hague - The Guardian (July 31, 2013) Labour: UK 'missing opportunity' to engage with Iran - BBC (July 26, 2013) UK not attending Iran president's inauguration - The Guardian (July 24, 2013) Supreme court quashes Iran bank sanctions and criticises secret hearings - The Guardian (June 19, 2013) Iran accuses Britain of operating spy ring to undermine elections - The Independent (June 3, 2013) Iran deputy speaker condemns 2011 attack on UK embassy - BBC (April 5, 2013) Britain was wrong to close Tehran embassy, says David Miliband - The Guardian (January 31, 2013) Iran military action not 'right course at this time', Downing Street says - The Guardian (October 26, 2012) Britain rejects US request to use UK bases in nuclear standoff with Iran - The Guardian (October 25, 2012) Prime Minister David Cameron calls on Israel not to launch unilateral attack on Iran - The Independent (October 15, 2012) Storming British embassy in Iran was not right, says supreme leader - The Guardian (August 7, 2012) UK defence chiefs prepare for conflict with Iran over nuclear programme - The Guardian (May 23, 2012) Flynt Leverett: Going to Tehran - WPSU (May 2, 2013) UK 'will keep up pressure on Iran' - BBC (April 17, 2012) Hague condemns Tehran for blocking Foreign Office website - BBC (March 18, 2012) Iran accused of intimidating BBC Persian staff - BBC (February 3, 2012) Iran blocks UK Foreign Office website - BBC (December 22, 2011) British 'most secret' invasion plans seized at Iran embassy - 70 years on - The Guardian (December 5, 2011) Iran diplomats to leave UK after Tehran embassy attack - BBC (December 2, 2011) Coup that colours Anglo-Iranian relations - The Guardian (December 1, 2011) UK to expel all Iranian diplomats over embassy attack - BBC (November 30, 2011) UK withdraws diplomatic staff from Iran after attack - BBC (November 30, 2011) Hague says Iran will face 'serious consequences' over embassy attack - The Guardian (November 29, 2011) UK warns Iran after embassy stormed - BBC (November 29, 2011) Iran protesters storm UK embassy in Tehran - BBC (November 29, 2011) Iran parliament votes to downgrade relations with UK - BBC (November 27, 2011) Iranian MPs approve bill to reduce British diplomatic ties with Tehran - The Guardian (November 23, 2011) UK military steps up plans for Iran attack amid fresh nuclear fears - The Guardian (November 2, 2011) Blair criticises Iran and Syria - BBC (September 8, 2011) David Cameron: Britain caused many of the world's problems - Telegraph (April 5, 2011) David Cameron plans link-up with US and France for new sanctions on Iran - The Guardian (February 23, 2011) WikiLeaks cables: UK blocked $60m arms deal over fears of Iran link - The Guardian (February 23, 2011) UK's Thatcher Appealed To Iran Over US Hostages - AP (December 30, 2010) WikiLeaks cables: Iranian TV channel faced UK sanction over jamming row - The Guardian (December 21, 2010) Iranian politicians call for UK ambassador recall - BBC (December 13, 2010) WikiLeaks cables: US pressured British regulator to act against Iranian banks - The Guardian (December 13, 2010) US embassy cables: Foreign office talks tough on Iran - The Guardian (December 13, 2010) Pope helped to free British sailors held by Iran, WikiLeaks cables show - The Guardian (December 10, 2010) Briton teaches US diplomats how to talk to Iran - The Guardian (November 28, 2010) Iran lays claim to British Museum's Cyrus Cylinder - The Guardian (September 15, 2010) Cyrus Cylinder loaned to Iran by British Museum - BBC (September 10, 2010) Sleeping with the Enemy: BP's Deals with Iran - Time Magazine (June 16, 2010) Tony Blair slated for Iran threat claim - Times Online (January 30, 2010) Iran looks again at links with Britain - The Independent (January 18, 2010) National archives: how Britain told deposed Shah of Iran to stay away - The Guardian (December 29, 2009) British sailors seized in Iran apologise for families' ordeal - The Guardian (December 4, 2009) Skipper of UK-crewed yacht admits Iran waters 'mistake' - BBC (December 2, 2009) UK yacht crew detained by Iranian navy - BBC (November 30, 2009) UK to press Iran on embassy staff - BBC (July 5, 2009) UK seeks Iran trial clarification - BBC (July 4, 2009) UK 'deeply concerned' at arrests - BBC (June 28, 2009) Britain and Iran's fraught history - BBC (June 24, 2009) Iran attacks against UK tap into centuries of suspicion - CNN (June 24, 2009) UK expels two Iranian diplomats - BBC (June 23, 2009) Relations between old adversaries Britain and Iran hit new low - The Guardian (June 23, 2009) BBC Bias and the Iranian Revolution - BBC (March 23, 2009) British Council in Iran 'illegal' - BBC (February 5, 2009) British fear US commander is beating the drum for Iran strikes - Telegraph (April 5, 2008) MPs urging direct US-Iran talks - BBC (March 2, 2008) British GCHQ eavesdropping played role in US intelligence U-turn on Iran - The Guardian (December 6, 2007) Iran accuses Britain of digging tunnel to ferry spies into embassy - The Guardian (August 11, 2007) Brown evades question over Iran - BBC (May 26, 2007) Iran to release British sailors tomorrow - The Guardian (April 4, 2007) A bitter legacy - The Guardian (March 30, 2007) Fury as Iran shows footage of captured sailors on television - The Guardian (March 29, 2007) UK/Iran bilateral links suspended - BBC (March 28, 2007) Iranians blame UK for all that goes awry - The Guardian (March 25, 2007) Sailors fall foul of emerging regional superpower - The Guardian (March 24, 2007) Foreign Office demands Tehran frees sailors - The Guardian (March 23, 2007) No plans to attack Iran - Blair - BBC (February 6, 2007) Iran a 'major threat', says Blair - BBC (December 12, 2006) Britain took part in mock Iran invasion - The Guardian (April 15, 2006) UK dismisses talk of Iran attack - BBC (April 9, 2006) Iran calls for UK Iraq pull-out - BBC (February 17, 2006) Iran accuses UK of bombing link - BBC (January 25, 2006) Blair rejects action against Iran and Syria - Telegraph (January 23, 2006) Blair threatens UN action on Iran - BBC (January 11, 2006) Iran nuclear move 'concerns UK' - BBC (January 10, 2006) Iran bombs link: retraction or non-retraction? - BBC (January 10, 2006) Was Blair right to warn Iran? - BBC (October 7, 2005) Blair warns Iran over Iraq bombs - BBC (October 6, 2005) Tehran students attack UK embassy - BBC (September 28, 2005) Military action against Iran 'inconceivable', says Straw - The Guardian (September 28, 2005) Lib Dems challenge Blair to spell out Iran plans - The Guardian (April 23, 2005) Iran must beware of 'cunning' Britain in nuclear talks, says cleric - AFP (February 4, 2005) Can Straw tread softly while US turns its eye on Iran? - The Guardian (January 28, 2005) Straw emollient on Iran rift after US talks - The Guardian (January 25, 2005) BP chief's remarks enrage Iran - The Guardian (January 25, 2005) U.S.: British Foreign Secretary Says U.S. Committed To Diplomatic Approach Toward Iran - RFE (January 25, 2005) Straw flies to US for talks on Iran - The Guardian (January 24, 2005) Britain outlines case against attack on Iran: report - AFP (January 23, 2005) Straw: war on Iran 'inconceivable'- The Guardian (November 5, 2004) Straw defends diplomacy with Iran - BBC (July 4, 2004) Attack Iran, US chief ordered British - Telegraph (June 30, 2004) We must support Iran's evolution - The Guardian (June 27, 2004) Iran frees eight British sailors - The Guardian (June 25, 2004) Talks resume on crew held in Iran - BBC (June 24, 2004) Iran parades captured and blindfolded sailors on TV The - Guardian (June 23, 2004) Delicate UK-Iran ties under strain - BBC (June 21, 2004) HRH visits Iran to see the devastation of the Bam Earthquake (Feb. 15, 2004) Charles's goodwill visit to Iran - BBC (February 9, 2004) Prince Charles tours quake-hit Bam - The Guardian (February 9, 2004) UK refuses to extradite Iranian - BBC (November 13, 2003) Downturn in British-Iran relations is par for the course - AFP (September 16, 2003) Analysis: Iran's UK dilemma - BBC (September 3, 2003) Truck smashes into UK's Iran embassy - BBC (April 1, 2003) Britain's dirty secret - The Guardian (March 6, 2003) Blair tries to woo Iran into anti-Saddam pact - Telegraph (January 7, 2003) Iran rejects ambassador as 'MI6 agent' - The Guardian (February 8, 2002) Iran's love-hate relationship with the UK - BBC (September 29, 2001) Royal to-do over 'undignified festivities' - The Guardian (August 15, 2001) Iranian hardliners accuse Britain of fomenting revolt - 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But why now? And why did it take so long? - The Guardian (March 16, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori on way back to UK, Liz Truss confirms - The Guardian (March 16, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has had UK passport returned, says MP - The Guardian (March 15, 2022) Iranian ambassador to UK removed from post over hijab incident - The Guardian (February 27, 2022) Truss tells Iran she hopes UK will soon be able to repay £400m debt - The Guardian (February 15, 2022) Zaghari-Ratcliffe 'angry at her life being stolen' after deal for release collapses - The Guardian (February 13, 2022) BBC accuses Iran of escalating harassment of staff - BBC (February 10, 2022) Aras Amiri: British Council says jailed employee freed by Iran - BBC (January 12, 2022) Women stage global fast to pressure UK over Nazanin Zagari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (December 20, 2021) Iran says UK is discussing how to repay £400m debt - The Guardian (December 10, 2021) Britain and Israel to sign trade and defence deal - The Guardian (November 28, 2021 Don't mention UK's £400m debt to Iran in Commons, Zaghari-Ratcliffe's MP told - The Guardian (November 15, 2021 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband ending hunger strike after 21 days - BBC (November 13, 2021 UK tells Iran that sanctions prevent payment of £400m debt - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 Why an old £400m debt to Iran stands in way of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 'We should pay debt': Jeremy Hunt says £400m owed to Iran is not ransom money - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 After 17 days of hunger strike, I'm still trying to save Nazanin - The Guardian (November 9, 2021 Richard Ratcliffe on hunger strike: 'There's no plan to get Nazanin out' - The Guardian (November 5, 2021 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband begins new hunger strike in London - BBC (October 24, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe?s husband hits out at government handling of case - The Guardian (October 16, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: British-Iranian aid worker loses court appeal in Iran - BBC (October 16, 2021) RAF intelligence base linked to US drone strike on Iranian general Qassem Soleimani - The Guardian (October 2, 2021) Britain must repay £400m debt and lift sanctions, Iran tells Liz Truss - The Guardian (September 23, 2021) My dad, held hostage in Iran - BBC (September 20, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe campaign urges sanctions against 10 Iranians - The Guardian (September 19, 2021) UK ambassador angers Iran with 'insulting' embassy photo gaffe - The Guardian (August 12, 2021) UK condemns Iran's sentencing of British-Iranian national - Reuters (August 6, 2021) UK summons Iranian envoy over tanker attack - BBC (August 2, 2021) 'Highly likely' Iran was behind fatal oil tanker attack - Dominic Raab - The Guardian (August 1, 2021) Iranian hackers posed as British-based academic - BBC (July 13, 2021) Biden would not bar UK paying Iran debt to secure Nazanin's release - Antony Blinken - Evening Standard (May 6, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK and Iran in talks over debt but 'unlinked' to case - BBC (May 3, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran treatment 'amounts to torture', says Dominic Raab - BBC (May 2, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe sentenced to a year in Iran prison - BBC (April 26, 2021) Court hearing over UK's £400m tank deal debt to Iran postponed - The Guardian (April 19, 2021) Defence secretary says Britain must honour Iran debt linked to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case - Times Online (March 22, 2021) 'Hostage diplomacy' behind Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's Kafkaesque ordeal - The Guardian (March 14, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Tehran court on new charge - BBC (March 14, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe must be released 'permanently', says PM - BBC (March 8, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe released but faces new court date in Iran - BBC (March 7, 2021) Richard Ratcliffe still unsure if wife will be released on Sunday - The Guardian (March 6, 2021) Briton held in Iran 'completely shut off' after losing phone access - The Guardian (February 19, 2021) Kameel Ahmady: British-Iranian academic facing jail escapes Iran - BBC (February 3, 2021) Foreign Office tells Richard Ratcliffe to keep quiet as wife's release date nears - The Guardian (January 31, 2021) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK 'starting to look weak' over failure to protect citizens, says Hunt - The Guardian (December 29, 2020) 'Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a hostage: the government needs to call her that' - The Guardian (December 20, 2020) MPs say UK government strategy on Iran prisoners not working - The Guardian (December 15, 2020) British-Iranian academic sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran - The Guardian (December 13, 2020) Tehran exchanges Kylie Moore-Gilbert for three Iranians jailed abroad - The Guardian (November 25, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe avoids being returned to jail - The Guardian (November 2, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK expresses 'grave concern' over fresh court proceedings - The Guardian (October 29, 2020) Iran moves detained academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert back to Tehran prison - The Guardian (October 29, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to stand trial on fresh charges in Iran next week - The Guardian (October 28, 2020) Hopes for Kylie Moore-Gilbert after detained academic moved out of Iran's Qarchak prison - The Guardian (October 24, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Sentence served but no sign of freedom - Sky News (September 29, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe files report of Revolutionary Guards harassment - The Guardian (September 22, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe speaks of ordeal after trial postponement - The Guardian (September 13, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: New charge 'a political game', says husband - BBC (September 9, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe faces new charge, Iranian media reports - The Guardian (September 8, 2020) Will Britain Follow In America's Footsteps And Repay Iran For Undelivered Military Hardware? - Forbes (September 7, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK acknowledges debt owed to Iran over Shah's tank order - The Guardian (September 4, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert's every step being followed inside prison in Iran - The Guardian (September 2, 2020) UK delays Zaghari-Ratcliffe release for fear of offending Trump, lawyers claim - The Guardian (August 25, 2020) Mike Pompeo: 'I regret' Britain's Iran sanctions vote - Spectator (August 20, 2020) British spy's account sheds light on role in 1953 Iranian coup - The Guardian (August 17, 2020) Explanation of Vote on Non-proliferation (Iran) resolution - GOV.UK (August 14, 2020) Iran jails 'British spy': Former business associate of Tessa Jowell's husband - Daily Mail (August 11, 2020) Two Iranians sentenced to 10 years for spying - BBC (August 11, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert in good health in Iran with access to medical treatment and books, Dfat says - The Guardian (August 4, 2020) MI6, the coup in Iran that changed the Middle East, and the cover-up - The Guardian (August 2, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert: Lecturer jailed in Iran moved to remote prison - BBC (July 28, 2020) 'Radical change' needed for UK-Iran bilateral relations - Cranfield University PR (July 21, 2020) John Bolton: Boris Johnson 'playing Trump like a fiddle' - Politico (June 25, 2020) 1953 Iran coup: How a garbled message from 'Queen Elizabeth' bolstered the overthrow of Mosaddegh's government - The Independent (June 13, 2020) A message from 'Queen Elizabeth' to the shah played role in CIA 1953 coup in Iran, documentary says - NBC News (June 7, 2020) Revolutionary Guards block clemency for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (May 30, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to stay out of prison until Iran decides on fate - The Guardian (May 20, 2020) UK rejects plea for ambassador to visit Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Iran - The Guardian (May 17, 2020) Fears rise Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe may be returned to Iran jail - The Guardian (May 5, 2020) Threat to blow up besieged Iran embassy - archive, 1980 - The Guardian (May 1, 2020) In pictures: Iranian embassy siege in London - BBC (April 30, 2020) Iran extends Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's prison release by month - The Guardian (April 21, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe waiting to hear if she must return to prison - The Guardian (April 18, 2020) Iran temporarily frees British resident Aras Amiri on furlough - Amnesty - Reuters (April 9, 2020) Coronavirus relief workers appeal for release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (April 7, 2020) Iranian dual national Foroughi returns to UK, nine years after arrest - Reuters (April 1, 2020) INSTEX successfully concludes first transaction - GOV.UK (March 31, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe under consideration for clemency - The Guardian (March 29, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe's leave from prison to be extended by two weeks - The Guardian (March 28, 2020) UK presses US to ease Iran sanctions to help fight coronavirus - The Guardian (March 18, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe freed temporarily from Iranian prison - The Guardian (March 17, 2020) Iran's ambassador to UK reveals bilateral talks over £400m debt - The Guardian (March 15, 2020) UN experts demand Iran ceases harassing BBC Persian staff - BBC (March 11, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's health improves despite coronavirus fears - The Guardian (March 9, 2020) British ambassador returns to Iran after brief arrest last month - Reuters (February 6, 2020) Britain complicit in the crushing of Iran's Tudeh party - Qantara (February 5, 2020) Britain's Prince Charles wants to visit Iran: Sunday Times - Reuters (January 25, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband urges PM to be tough with Iran - The Guardian (January 23, 2020) The Zaghari-Ratcliffes' ordeal: a story of British arrogance, secret arms deals and Whitehall infighting - The Guardian (January 23, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: pay £400m debt in aid, urges husband - The Guardian (January 22, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: court hearing over £400m Iran debt may hasten release - The Guardian (January 21, 2020) How Britain helped Iran's Islamic regime destroy the left-wing opposition - Daily Maverick (January 21, 2020) Jailed British-Australian Kylie Moore-Gilbert rejected Iran's offer to work as a spy - The Guardian (January 20, 2020) Rob Macaire: Britain's ambassador to Iran heads back to UK - Sky News (January 15, 2020) Iran warns UK against 'any new mistake' after ambassador arrest - Sky News (January 14, 2020) Boris Johnson: PM urges Trump to come up with new Iran plan - BBC (January 14, 2020) UK summons Iran ambassador over diplomat's 'unacceptable' arrest - BBC (January 13, 2020) Iran regime 'at a crossroads', warns Raab - BBC (January 13, 2020) There's a chance for change in the Middle East and Britain has a role to play - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Dominic Raab warns Iran of 'pariah' status after ambassador arrest - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Iran summons UK ambassador amid row over his arrest - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Britain condemns Tehran's arrest of UK ambassador - BBC (January 12, 2020) UK ambassador arrested in Tehran - BBC (January 11, 2020) Boris Johnson urges Iran president to end military action - The Guardian (January 9, 2020) Iran attack: How much influence does UK have in US-Iran crisis? - BBC (January 8, 2020) Qasem Soleimani: PM 'will not lament' Iranian general's death - BBC (January 5, 2020) Boris Johnson: Qassem Suleimani was threat to all our interests - The Guardian (January 5, 2020) The Guardian view on Trump's war: UK goes from poodle to lapdog? - The Guardian (January 5, 2020) Royal Navy vessels sent to protect shipping in Strait of Hormuz - The Guardian (January 4, 2020) Boris Johnson's silence on Suleimani assassination is 'deafening' say critics - The Guardian (January 4, 2020) Foreign Office hardens Iran and Iraq travel advice - BBC (January 4, 2020) Revealed: David Miliband called off SAS strike on Iranian General Qassim Soleimani in 2007 - Telegraph (January 3, 2020) Qasem Soleimani: Boris Johnson not told about US airstrike - BBC (January 3, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Daughter of Briton jailed in Iran back in UK - BBC (October 11, 2019) Australian-UK blogger couple freed from Iran jail - BBC (October 5, 2019) Iranian spying charge 'preposterous', prisoner's wife says - BBC (September 27, 2019) Stena Impero: Iran 'still investigating' seized British tanker - BBC (September 25, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe must be released, Johnson tells Iran's president - BBC (September 24, 2019) Kylie Moore-Gilbert named as British-Australian academic held in Iran - BBC (September 14, 2019) Britain-Iran relationship caught up in mutual blame game - The Guardian (September 11, 2019) Iran 'convicts British-Iranian dual national of spying for Israel' - BBC (August 27, 2019) Aras Amiri: British Council worker jailed in Iran a 'bargaining chip' - BBC (August 21, 2019) Kameel Ahmady: British-Iranian academic 'arrested in Iran' - BBC (August 14, 2019) UK joins US in mission to protect oil tankers in Gulf - The Guardian (August 5, 2019) Iran ambassador's apparent olive branch could ease Gulf tensions - Sky News (July 31, 2019) Royal Marines used brute force, says tanker captain - BBC (July 30, 2019) Court ruling over tanks debt deals new blow to UK-Iran relations - The Guardian (July 26, 2019) Iran hints at ship swap with UK amid de-escalation efforts - The Guardian (July 24, 2019) Prime mover: Johnson and the UK-Iran crisis - ECFR (July 24, 2019) The 'Special' U.S.-U.K. Relationship is Bruised After Trump Officials Left U.K. Out of Iran Strike Planning - Time Magazine (July 23, 2019) Iran-UK tanker standoff: What is the next step for Britain? - DW (July 23, 2019) UK to seek European maritime mission to counter Iran's ' illegal acts of piracy' - The Guardian (July 22, 2019) Iran tanker seizure: May to chair Cobra meeting on crisis - BBC (July 22, 2019) The English Job by Jack Straw review - portrait of Iran's fixation with Britain - The Guardian (July 22, 2019) Jeremy Hunt under pressure to back plan for Gulf force as Iran digs in - The Guardian (July 21, 2019) Ministers 'considering freezing Iran assets' following tanker seizure - ITV (July 21, 2019) Tanker seizure: Jeremy Hunt urges Iran to release Stena Impero - BBC (July 20, 2019) UK to step up its military presence in Gulf amid crisis with Iran - The Guardian (July 12, 2019) Is the US nudging Britain into dangerous waters with Iran? - The Guardian (July 11, 2019) UK ships in Gulf on high alert after Royal Navy trains guns on Iranian vessels - The Guardian (July 11, 2019) Iranian boats 'tried to intercept British tanker' - BBC (July 11, 2019) Iran summons UK ambassador in tanker seizure row - BBC (July 4, 2019) The heedless drift towards war with Iran shames Britain - The Guardian (June 28, 2019) Will the UK's new prime minister take Trump's side on Iran? - Atlantic Council (June 23, 2019) Gulf of Oman: Iran protests to UK ambassador - BBC (June 16, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe begins new hunger strike - BBC (June 15, 2019) Aras Amiri: British Council names employee jailed by Iran - BBC (May 14, 2019) Iran 'jails British Council worker for spying for UK' - BBC (May 13, 2019) Iran accused of 'playing games' over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (April 27, 2019) Iranian woman in Australian jail drawn into Zaghari-Ratcliffe diplomatic dispute - The Guardian (April 25, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran offers prisoner swap - BBC (April 24, 2019) Iran rejects UK claim of diplomatic status for Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (March 8, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iranian-Briton to get diplomatic protection - BBC (March 7, 2019) Jeremy Hunt warns of Middle East 'first world war risk' on Iran visit - The Guardian (November 19, 2018) Hunt to appeal for release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe on Iran visit - The Guardian (November 18, 2018) Foreign Office advises dual UK-Iranian nationals against all but 'essential' travel to Iran - The Independent (September 19, 2018) US ambassador says UK should join Trump and put pressure on Iran - The Guardian (August 12, 2018) More people with UK links arrested in Iran - BBC (May 2, 2018) Abbas Edalat: Iran confirms arrest of British professor - BBC (April 29, 2018) BBC urges UN to act over harassment of journalists in Iran - The Guardian (March 11, 2018) British dual citizen sentenced to six-year jail term, Iran reveals - Reuters (March 11, 2018) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: question over delay in return of jailed British-Iranian - The Guardian (March 10, 2018) Hopes rise for release of Briton jailed in Iran after court hearing postponed - The Guardian (December 10, 2017) Johnson's talks on jailed Briton in Iran 'worthwhile' - BBC (December 10, 2017) Boris Johnson begins Iran talks over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (December 9, 2017) Britain preparing plan to transfer £400m to Iran as Boris Johnson vows to do everything to bring home Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Telegraph (November 15, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Government considers diplomatic protection - BBC (November 15, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case: Boris Johnson apologises over remarks - BBC (November 13, 2017) Boris Johnson to travel to US in bid to save Iran nuclear deal - The Guardian (November 2, 2017) Iran BBC complaint: UN urges Tehran to stop harassing staff - BBC (October 25, 2017) Iran to blame for cyber-attack on MPs' emails - British intelligence - The Guardian (October 13, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: More charges for mum in Iran - BBC (October 9, 2017) Tensions surface between UK and US over Iran nuclear deal - The Guardian (September 14, 2017) UK warned it needs new Middle East policy that does not rely on Trump - The Guardian (May 2, 2017) May refuses Netanyahu's call to impose new sanctions on Iran - The Guardian (February 6, 2017) Benjamin Netanyahu to press Theresa May for tougher line on Iran - The Guardian (February 5, 2017) Theresa May 'clear-eyed' over Iran threat - BBC (December 6, 2016) UK-Iranian mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe 'jailed on secret charges' - BBC (September 9, 2016) UK appoints first ambassador to Iran in five years - BBC (September 5, 2016) British Airways to resume direct flights to Iran - BBC (September 1, 2016) Iran accuses dual national of spying for British intelligence - BBC (August 16, 2016) May presses Iran over detained Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Reuters (August 9, 2016) Family of charity worker detained in Iran writes to foreign secretary - Press Association (July 26, 2016) Hopes for British-Iranian mother in jail in Iran - BBC (June 16, 2016) Iran accuses British mother, Nazanin Ratcliffe, of leading 'hostile network' to 'overthrow' regime - Telegraph (June 15, 2016) British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe detained for a month 'without charge' - BBC (May 9, 2016) Prince Charles 'plans' historic royal trip to Iran - The Independent (March 27, 2016) Iran and the UK: Bridging the Gulf - British Council (March 2016) Can Iran and the UK really bury the hatchet? - BBC (August 26, 2015) In Iran's eyes, Britain is still the 'old fox' - Telegraph (August 25, 2015) Philip Hammond declares new chapter with Iran in search for end to Syrian war - The Guardian (August 24, 2015) Iran-UK relations: 12 moments in a troubled history - The Guardian (August 23, 2015) Iran reopens embassy in London as Britain does the same in Tehran - The Guardian (August 23, 2015) British embassy in Tehran reopens four years after closure - BBC (August 23, 2015) Foreign Office relaxes Iran advice for British nationals - BBC (July 25, 2015) Tehran embassy re-opening will test troubled UK-Iran relations - The Guardian (July 17, 2015) UK hopes to reopen embassy in Iran by end of year, says Philip Hammond - The Guardian (July 15, 2015) Foreign Office 'did not stop Iraq making chemical weapons' - The Guardian (July 2, 2015) British-Iranian woman jailed over volleyball game sees charges dropped - The Guardian (April 2, 2015) Ghoncheh Ghavami: Charges dropped - but volleyball Briton must stay - The Independent (March 26, 2015) Volleyball woman Ghoncheh Ghavami out of Iran prison - BBC (November 23, 2014) Ghoncheh Ghavami's family devastated by year's jail sentence in Iran - video - The Guardian (November 3, 2014) Leaders of UK and Iran meet for first time since 1979 Islamic revolution - The Guardian (September 24, 2014) David Cameron to meet Iran leader over Isis campaign - The Guardian (September 22, 2014) UK to re-open Iran embassy says Hague - BBC (June 17, 2014) Tehran ready to offer cash for British embassy attack - but no apology - The Guardian (May 18, 2014) UK and Iran discuss re-opening embassies - Telegraph (April 28, 2014) UK and Iran agree to re-establish direct diplomatic relations - The Guardian (February 20, 2014) Iran's largest private bank sues UK government for $4bn damages - BBC (February 17, 2014) Khamenei says US 'wouldn't hesitate' to topple Iranian regime if it could - Reuters (February 9, 2014) Bank Mellat to serve UK government with damages claim of up to £1bn - The Guardian (February 4, 2014) Jack Straw 'optimistic' over Iran future after Tehran visit - BBC (January 10, 2014) Iran claims to have captured MI6 spy - BBC (December 14, 2013) Iranian envoy to make first UK visit - BBC (December 11, 2013) New UK envoy Ajay Sharma to make Iran visit - BBC (December 2, 2013) Cameron makes first call to Iran's Rouhani - BBC (November 19, 2013) UK and Iran name charges d'affaires - BBC (November 11, 2013) Britain and Iran pave way for reopening of London and Tehran embassies - The Guardian (October 8, 2013) UK open to improving London-Tehran ties, says William Hague - The Guardian (July 31, 2013) Labour: UK 'missing opportunity' to engage with Iran - BBC (July 26, 2013) UK not attending Iran president's inauguration - The Guardian (July 24, 2013) Supreme court quashes Iran bank sanctions and criticises secret hearings - The Guardian (June 19, 2013) Iran accuses Britain of operating spy ring to undermine elections - The Independent (June 3, 2013) Iran deputy speaker condemns 2011 attack on UK embassy - BBC (April 5, 2013) Britain was wrong to close Tehran embassy, says David Miliband - The Guardian (January 31, 2013) Iran military action not 'right course at this time', Downing Street says - The Guardian (October 26, 2012) Britain rejects US request to use UK bases in nuclear standoff with Iran - The Guardian (October 25, 2012) Prime Minister David Cameron calls on Israel not to launch unilateral attack on Iran - The Independent (October 15, 2012) Storming British embassy in Iran was not right, says supreme leader - The Guardian (August 7, 2012) UK defence chiefs prepare for conflict with Iran over nuclear programme - The Guardian (May 23, 2012) Flynt Leverett: Going to Tehran - WPSU (May 2, 2013) UK 'will keep up pressure on Iran' - BBC (April 17, 2012) Hague condemns Tehran for blocking Foreign Office website - BBC (March 18, 2012) Iran accused of intimidating BBC Persian staff - BBC (February 3, 2012) Iran blocks UK Foreign Office website - BBC (December 22, 2011) British 'most secret' invasion plans seized at Iran embassy - 70 years on - The Guardian (December 5, 2011) Iran diplomats to leave UK after Tehran embassy attack - BBC (December 2, 2011) Coup that colours Anglo-Iranian relations - The Guardian (December 1, 2011) UK to expel all Iranian diplomats over embassy attack - BBC (November 30, 2011) UK withdraws diplomatic staff from Iran after attack - BBC (November 30, 2011) Hague says Iran will face 'serious consequences' over embassy attack - The Guardian (November 29, 2011) UK warns Iran after embassy stormed - BBC (November 29, 2011) Iran protesters storm UK embassy in Tehran - BBC (November 29, 2011) Iran parliament votes to downgrade relations with UK - BBC (November 27, 2011) Iranian MPs approve bill to reduce British diplomatic ties with Tehran - The Guardian (November 23, 2011) UK military steps up plans for Iran attack amid fresh nuclear fears - The Guardian (November 2, 2011) Blair criticises Iran and Syria - BBC (September 8, 2011) David Cameron: Britain caused many of the world's problems - Telegraph (April 5, 2011) David Cameron plans link-up with US and France for new sanctions on Iran - The Guardian (February 23, 2011) WikiLeaks cables: UK blocked $60m arms deal over fears of Iran link - The Guardian (February 23, 2011) UK's Thatcher Appealed To Iran Over US Hostages - AP (December 30, 2010) WikiLeaks cables: Iranian TV channel faced UK sanction over jamming row - The Guardian (December 21, 2010) Iranian politicians call for UK ambassador recall - BBC (December 13, 2010) WikiLeaks cables: US pressured British regulator to act against Iranian banks - The Guardian (December 13, 2010) US embassy cables: Foreign office talks tough on Iran - The Guardian (December 13, 2010) Pope helped to free British sailors held by Iran, WikiLeaks cables show - The Guardian (December 10, 2010) Briton teaches US diplomats how to talk to Iran - The Guardian (November 28, 2010) Iran lays claim to British Museum's Cyrus Cylinder - The Guardian (September 15, 2010) Cyrus Cylinder loaned to Iran by British Museum - BBC (September 10, 2010) Sleeping with the Enemy: BP's Deals with Iran - Time Magazine (June 16, 2010) Tony Blair slated for Iran threat claim - Times Online (January 30, 2010) Iran looks again at links with Britain - The Independent (January 18, 2010) National archives: how Britain told deposed Shah of Iran to stay away - The Guardian (December 29, 2009) British sailors seized in Iran apologise for families' ordeal - The Guardian (December 4, 2009) Skipper of UK-crewed yacht admits Iran waters 'mistake' - BBC (December 2, 2009) UK yacht crew detained by Iranian navy - BBC (November 30, 2009) UK to press Iran on embassy staff - BBC (July 5, 2009) UK seeks Iran trial clarification - BBC (July 4, 2009) UK 'deeply concerned' at arrests - BBC (June 28, 2009) Britain and Iran's fraught history - BBC (June 24, 2009) Iran attacks against UK tap into centuries of suspicion - CNN (June 24, 2009) UK expels two Iranian diplomats - BBC (June 23, 2009) Relations between old adversaries Britain and Iran hit new low - The Guardian (June 23, 2009) BBC Bias and the Iranian Revolution - BBC (March 23, 2009) British Council in Iran 'illegal' - BBC (February 5, 2009) British fear US commander is beating the drum for Iran strikes - Telegraph (April 5, 2008) MPs urging direct US-Iran talks - BBC (March 2, 2008) British GCHQ eavesdropping played role in US intelligence U-turn on Iran - The Guardian (December 6, 2007) Iran accuses Britain of digging tunnel to ferry spies into embassy - The Guardian (August 11, 2007) Brown evades question over Iran - BBC (May 26, 2007) Iran to release British sailors tomorrow - The Guardian (April 4, 2007) A bitter legacy - The Guardian (March 30, 2007) Fury as Iran shows footage of captured sailors on television - The Guardian (March 29, 2007) UK/Iran bilateral links suspended - BBC (March 28, 2007) Iranians blame UK for all that goes awry - The Guardian (March 25, 2007) Sailors fall foul of emerging regional superpower - The Guardian (March 24, 2007) Foreign Office demands Tehran frees sailors - The Guardian (March 23, 2007) No plans to attack Iran - Blair - BBC (February 6, 2007) Iran a 'major threat', says Blair - BBC (December 12, 2006) Britain took part in mock Iran invasion - The Guardian (April 15, 2006) UK dismisses talk of Iran attack - BBC (April 9, 2006) Iran calls for UK Iraq pull-out - BBC (February 17, 2006) Iran accuses UK of bombing link - BBC (January 25, 2006) Blair rejects action against Iran and Syria - Telegraph (January 23, 2006) Blair threatens UN action on Iran - BBC (January 11, 2006) Iran nuclear move 'concerns UK' - BBC (January 10, 2006) Iran bombs link: retraction or non-retraction? - BBC (January 10, 2006) Was Blair right to warn Iran? - BBC (October 7, 2005) Blair warns Iran over Iraq bombs - BBC (October 6, 2005) Tehran students attack UK embassy - BBC (September 28, 2005) Military action against Iran 'inconceivable', says Straw - The Guardian (September 28, 2005) Lib Dems challenge Blair to spell out Iran plans - The Guardian (April 23, 2005) Iran must beware of 'cunning' Britain in nuclear talks, says cleric - AFP (February 4, 2005) Can Straw tread softly while US turns its eye on Iran? - The Guardian (January 28, 2005) Straw emollient on Iran rift after US talks - The Guardian (January 25, 2005) BP chief's remarks enrage Iran - The Guardian (January 25, 2005) U.S.: British Foreign Secretary Says U.S. Committed To Diplomatic Approach Toward Iran - RFE (January 25, 2005) Straw flies to US for talks on Iran - The Guardian (January 24, 2005) Britain outlines case against attack on Iran: report - AFP (January 23, 2005) Straw: war on Iran 'inconceivable'- The Guardian (November 5, 2004) Straw defends diplomacy with Iran - BBC (July 4, 2004) Attack Iran, US chief ordered British - Telegraph (June 30, 2004) We must support Iran's evolution - The Guardian (June 27, 2004) Iran frees eight British sailors - The Guardian (June 25, 2004) Talks resume on crew held in Iran - BBC (June 24, 2004) Iran parades captured and blindfolded sailors on TV The - Guardian (June 23, 2004) Delicate UK-Iran ties under strain - BBC (June 21, 2004) HRH visits Iran to see the devastation of the Bam Earthquake (Feb. 15, 2004) Charles's goodwill visit to Iran - BBC (February 9, 2004) Prince Charles tours quake-hit Bam - The Guardian (February 9, 2004) UK refuses to extradite Iranian - BBC (November 13, 2003) Downturn in British-Iran relations is par for the course - AFP (September 16, 2003) Analysis: Iran's UK dilemma - BBC (September 3, 2003) Truck smashes into UK's Iran embassy - BBC (April 1, 2003) Britain's dirty secret - The Guardian (March 6, 2003) Blair tries to woo Iran into anti-Saddam pact - Telegraph (January 7, 2003) Iran rejects ambassador as 'MI6 agent' - The Guardian (February 8, 2002) Iran's love-hate relationship with the UK - BBC (September 29, 2001) Royal to-do over 'undignified festivities' - The Guardian (August 15, 2001) Iranian hardliners accuse Britain of fomenting revolt - 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Iranian Media Financial Tribune Iran Press ISNA Mehr News Press TV Tehran Times Embassy Iran Embassy London British Embassy Tehran News Iran spreading 'bloodshed and destruction', says foreign secretary - BBC (November 18, 2022) When Britain backed Iran's dictator - Declassified (November 8, 2022) UK sanctions morality police over violent crackdown - BBC (October 11, 2022) Iran summons British ambassador after 'interventionist comments' - Reuters (October 4, 2022) Iran media attacks Queen's 'bloody legacy', while officials ignore death - The Independent (September 9, 2022) UK blames Iran for 'reckless' cyberattack on Albania - Reuters (September 7, 2022) Secret deals ending Britain's control in Gulf revealed - BBC (August 30, 2022) Iran grants environmental activist Morad Tahbaz bail - BBC (July 27 2022) Britain 'immediately' supported U.S. over shooting down of Iranian Airliner - Declassified UK (July 20, 2022) UK navy says it seized smuggled Iranian missiles - Reuters (July 7, 2022) Iran's nuclear escalation is a threat to international peace and security: UK at Security Council - Gov.UK (June 30, 2022) Daughter of Briton jailed in Iran says Father's Day is 'the hardest day of all'- Express & Star (June 17, 2022) No UK official forced Nazanin to sign confession - minister - BBC (May 24, 2022) Zaghari-Ratcliffe says Foreign Office complicit in forcing her to confess - The Guardian (May 23, 2022) Boris Johnson accepted officials' advice on £400m Iran debt, ex-minister says - The Guardian (May 17, 2022) Iran Says UK Funds Have Arrived, But It Still Chases Other Overseas Assets - Forbes (April 28, 2022) Iran has not received £400m agreed by UK at time of Zaghari-Ratcliffe release - The Guardian (April 27, 2022) UK seeks to strengthen economic ties With Iran: Johnson's Aide - ThePrint (April 21 2022) Morad Tahbaz: Daughter of Iran detainee holds protest - BBC (April 13, 2022) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: MPs to hold inquiry into delay over Iran debt payment - The Guardian (March 22, 2022) Morad Tahbaz: British-US national detained in Iran on hunger strike - BBC (March 21, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: I should have been freed six years ago - BBC (March 21, 2022) Iran made Ashoori family raise £27,000 in 12 hours to secure his release - The Guardian (March 18, 2022) 'They can't stop hugging': Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's reunion with her daughter - The Guardian (March 18, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release: 'If any couple is going to survive this, it's them' - BBC (March 18, 2022) Morad Tahbaz, released in Nazanin deal, back in Iran jail - BBC (March 18, 2022) Foreign Office urged Richard Ratcliffe not to make 'song and dance', says MP - The Guardian (March 17, 2022) UK looking at ways to pay historic Iranian debt, foreign secretary says - Reuters (March 16, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is free. But why now? And why did it take so long? - The Guardian (March 16, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori on way back to UK, Liz Truss confirms - The Guardian (March 16, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has had UK passport returned, says MP - The Guardian (March 15, 2022) Iranian ambassador to UK removed from post over hijab incident - The Guardian (February 27, 2022) Truss tells Iran she hopes UK will soon be able to repay £400m debt - The Guardian (February 15, 2022) Zaghari-Ratcliffe 'angry at her life being stolen' after deal for release collapses - The Guardian (February 13, 2022) BBC accuses Iran of escalating harassment of staff - BBC (February 10, 2022) Aras Amiri: British Council says jailed employee freed by Iran - BBC (January 12, 2022) Women stage global fast to pressure UK over Nazanin Zagari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (December 20, 2021) Iran says UK is discussing how to repay £400m debt - The Guardian (December 10, 2021) Britain and Israel to sign trade and defence deal - The Guardian (November 28, 2021 Don't mention UK's £400m debt to Iran in Commons, Zaghari-Ratcliffe's MP told - The Guardian (November 15, 2021 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband ending hunger strike after 21 days - BBC (November 13, 2021 UK tells Iran that sanctions prevent payment of £400m debt - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 Why an old £400m debt to Iran stands in way of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 'We should pay debt': Jeremy Hunt says £400m owed to Iran is not ransom money - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 After 17 days of hunger strike, I'm still trying to save Nazanin - The Guardian (November 9, 2021 Richard Ratcliffe on hunger strike: 'There's no plan to get Nazanin out' - The Guardian (November 5, 2021 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband begins new hunger strike in London - BBC (October 24, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe?s husband hits out at government handling of case - The Guardian (October 16, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: British-Iranian aid worker loses court appeal in Iran - BBC (October 16, 2021) RAF intelligence base linked to US drone strike on Iranian general Qassem Soleimani - The Guardian (October 2, 2021) Britain must repay £400m debt and lift sanctions, Iran tells Liz Truss - The Guardian (September 23, 2021) My dad, held hostage in Iran - BBC (September 20, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe campaign urges sanctions against 10 Iranians - The Guardian (September 19, 2021) UK ambassador angers Iran with 'insulting' embassy photo gaffe - The Guardian (August 12, 2021) UK condemns Iran's sentencing of British-Iranian national - Reuters (August 6, 2021) UK summons Iranian envoy over tanker attack - BBC (August 2, 2021) 'Highly likely' Iran was behind fatal oil tanker attack - Dominic Raab - The Guardian (August 1, 2021) Iranian hackers posed as British-based academic - BBC (July 13, 2021) Biden would not bar UK paying Iran debt to secure Nazanin's release - Antony Blinken - Evening Standard (May 6, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK and Iran in talks over debt but 'unlinked' to case - BBC (May 3, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran treatment 'amounts to torture', says Dominic Raab - BBC (May 2, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe sentenced to a year in Iran prison - BBC (April 26, 2021) Court hearing over UK's £400m tank deal debt to Iran postponed - The Guardian (April 19, 2021) Defence secretary says Britain must honour Iran debt linked to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case - Times Online (March 22, 2021) 'Hostage diplomacy' behind Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's Kafkaesque ordeal - The Guardian (March 14, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Tehran court on new charge - BBC (March 14, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe must be released 'permanently', says PM - BBC (March 8, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe released but faces new court date in Iran - BBC (March 7, 2021) Richard Ratcliffe still unsure if wife will be released on Sunday - The Guardian (March 6, 2021) Briton held in Iran 'completely shut off' after losing phone access - The Guardian (February 19, 2021) Kameel Ahmady: British-Iranian academic facing jail escapes Iran - BBC (February 3, 2021) Foreign Office tells Richard Ratcliffe to keep quiet as wife's release date nears - The Guardian (January 31, 2021) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK 'starting to look weak' over failure to protect citizens, says Hunt - The Guardian (December 29, 2020) 'Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a hostage: the government needs to call her that' - The Guardian (December 20, 2020) MPs say UK government strategy on Iran prisoners not working - The Guardian (December 15, 2020) British-Iranian academic sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran - The Guardian (December 13, 2020) Tehran exchanges Kylie Moore-Gilbert for three Iranians jailed abroad - The Guardian (November 25, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe avoids being returned to jail - The Guardian (November 2, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK expresses 'grave concern' over fresh court proceedings - The Guardian (October 29, 2020) Iran moves detained academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert back to Tehran prison - The Guardian (October 29, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to stand trial on fresh charges in Iran next week - The Guardian (October 28, 2020) Hopes for Kylie Moore-Gilbert after detained academic moved out of Iran's Qarchak prison - The Guardian (October 24, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Sentence served but no sign of freedom - Sky News (September 29, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe files report of Revolutionary Guards harassment - The Guardian (September 22, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe speaks of ordeal after trial postponement - The Guardian (September 13, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: New charge 'a political game', says husband - BBC (September 9, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe faces new charge, Iranian media reports - The Guardian (September 8, 2020) Will Britain Follow In America's Footsteps And Repay Iran For Undelivered Military Hardware? - Forbes (September 7, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK acknowledges debt owed to Iran over Shah's tank order - The Guardian (September 4, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert's every step being followed inside prison in Iran - The Guardian (September 2, 2020) UK delays Zaghari-Ratcliffe release for fear of offending Trump, lawyers claim - The Guardian (August 25, 2020) Mike Pompeo: 'I regret' Britain's Iran sanctions vote - Spectator (August 20, 2020) British spy's account sheds light on role in 1953 Iranian coup - The Guardian (August 17, 2020) Explanation of Vote on Non-proliferation (Iran) resolution - GOV.UK (August 14, 2020) Iran jails 'British spy': Former business associate of Tessa Jowell's husband - Daily Mail (August 11, 2020) Two Iranians sentenced to 10 years for spying - BBC (August 11, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert in good health in Iran with access to medical treatment and books, Dfat says - The Guardian (August 4, 2020) MI6, the coup in Iran that changed the Middle East, and the cover-up - The Guardian (August 2, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert: Lecturer jailed in Iran moved to remote prison - BBC (July 28, 2020) 'Radical change' needed for UK-Iran bilateral relations - Cranfield University PR (July 21, 2020) John Bolton: Boris Johnson 'playing Trump like a fiddle' - Politico (June 25, 2020) 1953 Iran coup: How a garbled message from 'Queen Elizabeth' bolstered the overthrow of Mosaddegh's government - The Independent (June 13, 2020) A message from 'Queen Elizabeth' to the shah played role in CIA 1953 coup in Iran, documentary says - NBC News (June 7, 2020) Revolutionary Guards block clemency for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (May 30, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to stay out of prison until Iran decides on fate - The Guardian (May 20, 2020) UK rejects plea for ambassador to visit Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Iran - The Guardian (May 17, 2020) Fears rise Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe may be returned to Iran jail - The Guardian (May 5, 2020) Threat to blow up besieged Iran embassy - archive, 1980 - The Guardian (May 1, 2020) In pictures: Iranian embassy siege in London - BBC (April 30, 2020) Iran extends Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's prison release by month - The Guardian (April 21, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe waiting to hear if she must return to prison - The Guardian (April 18, 2020) Iran temporarily frees British resident Aras Amiri on furlough - Amnesty - Reuters (April 9, 2020) Coronavirus relief workers appeal for release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (April 7, 2020) Iranian dual national Foroughi returns to UK, nine years after arrest - Reuters (April 1, 2020) INSTEX successfully concludes first transaction - GOV.UK (March 31, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe under consideration for clemency - The Guardian (March 29, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe's leave from prison to be extended by two weeks - The Guardian (March 28, 2020) UK presses US to ease Iran sanctions to help fight coronavirus - The Guardian (March 18, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe freed temporarily from Iranian prison - The Guardian (March 17, 2020) Iran's ambassador to UK reveals bilateral talks over £400m debt - The Guardian (March 15, 2020) UN experts demand Iran ceases harassing BBC Persian staff - BBC (March 11, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's health improves despite coronavirus fears - The Guardian (March 9, 2020) British ambassador returns to Iran after brief arrest last month - Reuters (February 6, 2020) Britain complicit in the crushing of Iran's Tudeh party - Qantara (February 5, 2020) Britain's Prince Charles wants to visit Iran: Sunday Times - Reuters (January 25, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband urges PM to be tough with Iran - The Guardian (January 23, 2020) The Zaghari-Ratcliffes' ordeal: a story of British arrogance, secret arms deals and Whitehall infighting - The Guardian (January 23, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: pay £400m debt in aid, urges husband - The Guardian (January 22, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: court hearing over £400m Iran debt may hasten release - The Guardian (January 21, 2020) How Britain helped Iran's Islamic regime destroy the left-wing opposition - Daily Maverick (January 21, 2020) Jailed British-Australian Kylie Moore-Gilbert rejected Iran's offer to work as a spy - The Guardian (January 20, 2020) Rob Macaire: Britain's ambassador to Iran heads back to UK - Sky News (January 15, 2020) Iran warns UK against 'any new mistake' after ambassador arrest - Sky News (January 14, 2020) Boris Johnson: PM urges Trump to come up with new Iran plan - BBC (January 14, 2020) UK summons Iran ambassador over diplomat's 'unacceptable' arrest - BBC (January 13, 2020) Iran regime 'at a crossroads', warns Raab - BBC (January 13, 2020) There's a chance for change in the Middle East and Britain has a role to play - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Dominic Raab warns Iran of 'pariah' status after ambassador arrest - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Iran summons UK ambassador amid row over his arrest - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Britain condemns Tehran's arrest of UK ambassador - BBC (January 12, 2020) UK ambassador arrested in Tehran - BBC (January 11, 2020) Boris Johnson urges Iran president to end military action - The Guardian (January 9, 2020) Iran attack: How much influence does UK have in US-Iran crisis? - BBC (January 8, 2020) Qasem Soleimani: PM 'will not lament' Iranian general's death - BBC (January 5, 2020) Boris Johnson: Qassem Suleimani was threat to all our interests - The Guardian (January 5, 2020) The Guardian view on Trump's war: UK goes from poodle to lapdog? - The Guardian (January 5, 2020) Royal Navy vessels sent to protect shipping in Strait of Hormuz - The Guardian (January 4, 2020) Boris Johnson's silence on Suleimani assassination is 'deafening' say critics - The Guardian (January 4, 2020) Foreign Office hardens Iran and Iraq travel advice - BBC (January 4, 2020) Revealed: David Miliband called off SAS strike on Iranian General Qassim Soleimani in 2007 - Telegraph (January 3, 2020) Qasem Soleimani: Boris Johnson not told about US airstrike - BBC (January 3, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Daughter of Briton jailed in Iran back in UK - BBC (October 11, 2019) Australian-UK blogger couple freed from Iran jail - BBC (October 5, 2019) Iranian spying charge 'preposterous', prisoner's wife says - BBC (September 27, 2019) Stena Impero: Iran 'still investigating' seized British tanker - BBC (September 25, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe must be released, Johnson tells Iran's president - BBC (September 24, 2019) Kylie Moore-Gilbert named as British-Australian academic held in Iran - BBC (September 14, 2019) Britain-Iran relationship caught up in mutual blame game - The Guardian (September 11, 2019) Iran 'convicts British-Iranian dual national of spying for Israel' - BBC (August 27, 2019) Aras Amiri: British Council worker jailed in Iran a 'bargaining chip' - BBC (August 21, 2019) Kameel Ahmady: British-Iranian academic 'arrested in Iran' - BBC (August 14, 2019) UK joins US in mission to protect oil tankers in Gulf - The Guardian (August 5, 2019) Iran ambassador's apparent olive branch could ease Gulf tensions - Sky News (July 31, 2019) Royal Marines used brute force, says tanker captain - BBC (July 30, 2019) Court ruling over tanks debt deals new blow to UK-Iran relations - The Guardian (July 26, 2019) Iran hints at ship swap with UK amid de-escalation efforts - The Guardian (July 24, 2019) Prime mover: Johnson and the UK-Iran crisis - ECFR (July 24, 2019) The 'Special' U.S.-U.K. Relationship is Bruised After Trump Officials Left U.K. Out of Iran Strike Planning - Time Magazine (July 23, 2019) Iran-UK tanker standoff: What is the next step for Britain? - DW (July 23, 2019) UK to seek European maritime mission to counter Iran's ' illegal acts of piracy' - The Guardian (July 22, 2019) Iran tanker seizure: May to chair Cobra meeting on crisis - BBC (July 22, 2019) The English Job by Jack Straw review - portrait of Iran's fixation with Britain - The Guardian (July 22, 2019) Jeremy Hunt under pressure to back plan for Gulf force as Iran digs in - The Guardian (July 21, 2019) Ministers 'considering freezing Iran assets' following tanker seizure - ITV (July 21, 2019) Tanker seizure: Jeremy Hunt urges Iran to release Stena Impero - BBC (July 20, 2019) UK to step up its military presence in Gulf amid crisis with Iran - The Guardian (July 12, 2019) Is the US nudging Britain into dangerous waters with Iran? - The Guardian (July 11, 2019) UK ships in Gulf on high alert after Royal Navy trains guns on Iranian vessels - The Guardian (July 11, 2019) Iranian boats 'tried to intercept British tanker' - BBC (July 11, 2019) Iran summons UK ambassador in tanker seizure row - BBC (July 4, 2019) The heedless drift towards war with Iran shames Britain - The Guardian (June 28, 2019) Will the UK's new prime minister take Trump's side on Iran? - Atlantic Council (June 23, 2019) Gulf of Oman: Iran protests to UK ambassador - BBC (June 16, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe begins new hunger strike - BBC (June 15, 2019) Aras Amiri: British Council names employee jailed by Iran - BBC (May 14, 2019) Iran 'jails British Council worker for spying for UK' - BBC (May 13, 2019) Iran accused of 'playing games' over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (April 27, 2019) Iranian woman in Australian jail drawn into Zaghari-Ratcliffe diplomatic dispute - The Guardian (April 25, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran offers prisoner swap - BBC (April 24, 2019) Iran rejects UK claim of diplomatic status for Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (March 8, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iranian-Briton to get diplomatic protection - BBC (March 7, 2019) Jeremy Hunt warns of Middle East 'first world war risk' on Iran visit - The Guardian (November 19, 2018) Hunt to appeal for release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe on Iran visit - The Guardian (November 18, 2018) Foreign Office advises dual UK-Iranian nationals against all but 'essential' travel to Iran - The Independent (September 19, 2018) US ambassador says UK should join Trump and put pressure on Iran - The Guardian (August 12, 2018) More people with UK links arrested in Iran - BBC (May 2, 2018) Abbas Edalat: Iran confirms arrest of British professor - BBC (April 29, 2018) BBC urges UN to act over harassment of journalists in Iran - The Guardian (March 11, 2018) British dual citizen sentenced to six-year jail term, Iran reveals - Reuters (March 11, 2018) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: question over delay in return of jailed British-Iranian - The Guardian (March 10, 2018) Hopes rise for release of Briton jailed in Iran after court hearing postponed - The Guardian (December 10, 2017) Johnson's talks on jailed Briton in Iran 'worthwhile' - BBC (December 10, 2017) Boris Johnson begins Iran talks over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (December 9, 2017) Britain preparing plan to transfer £400m to Iran as Boris Johnson vows to do everything to bring home Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Telegraph (November 15, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Government considers diplomatic protection - BBC (November 15, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case: Boris Johnson apologises over remarks - BBC (November 13, 2017) Boris Johnson to travel to US in bid to save Iran nuclear deal - The Guardian (November 2, 2017) Iran BBC complaint: UN urges Tehran to stop harassing staff - BBC (October 25, 2017) Iran to blame for cyber-attack on MPs' emails - British intelligence - The Guardian (October 13, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: More charges for mum in Iran - BBC (October 9, 2017) Tensions surface between UK and US over Iran nuclear deal - The Guardian (September 14, 2017) UK warned it needs new Middle East policy that does not rely on Trump - The Guardian (May 2, 2017) May refuses Netanyahu's call to impose new sanctions on Iran - The Guardian (February 6, 2017) Benjamin Netanyahu to press Theresa May for tougher line on Iran - The Guardian (February 5, 2017) Theresa May 'clear-eyed' over Iran threat - BBC (December 6, 2016) UK-Iranian mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe 'jailed on secret charges' - BBC (September 9, 2016) UK appoints first ambassador to Iran in five years - BBC (September 5, 2016) British Airways to resume direct flights to Iran - BBC (September 1, 2016) Iran accuses dual national of spying for British intelligence - BBC (August 16, 2016) May presses Iran over detained Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Reuters (August 9, 2016) Family of charity worker detained in Iran writes to foreign secretary - Press Association (July 26, 2016) Hopes for British-Iranian mother in jail in Iran - BBC (June 16, 2016) Iran accuses British mother, Nazanin Ratcliffe, of leading 'hostile network' to 'overthrow' regime - Telegraph (June 15, 2016) British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe detained for a month 'without charge' - BBC (May 9, 2016) Prince Charles 'plans' historic royal trip to Iran - The Independent (March 27, 2016) Iran and the UK: Bridging the Gulf - British Council (March 2016) Can Iran and the UK really bury the hatchet? - BBC (August 26, 2015) In Iran's eyes, Britain is still the 'old fox' - Telegraph (August 25, 2015) Philip Hammond declares new chapter with Iran in search for end to Syrian war - The Guardian (August 24, 2015) Iran-UK relations: 12 moments in a troubled history - The Guardian (August 23, 2015) Iran reopens embassy in London as Britain does the same in Tehran - The Guardian (August 23, 2015) British embassy in Tehran reopens four years after closure - BBC (August 23, 2015) Foreign Office relaxes Iran advice for British nationals - BBC (July 25, 2015) Tehran embassy re-opening will test troubled UK-Iran relations - The Guardian (July 17, 2015) UK hopes to reopen embassy in Iran by end of year, says Philip Hammond - The Guardian (July 15, 2015) Foreign Office 'did not stop Iraq making chemical weapons' - The Guardian (July 2, 2015) British-Iranian woman jailed over volleyball game sees charges dropped - The Guardian (April 2, 2015) Ghoncheh Ghavami: Charges dropped - but volleyball Briton must stay - The Independent (March 26, 2015) Volleyball woman Ghoncheh Ghavami out of Iran prison - BBC (November 23, 2014) Ghoncheh Ghavami's family devastated by year's jail sentence in Iran - video - The Guardian (November 3, 2014) Leaders of UK and Iran meet for first time since 1979 Islamic revolution - The Guardian (September 24, 2014) David Cameron to meet Iran leader over Isis campaign - The Guardian (September 22, 2014) UK to re-open Iran embassy says Hague - BBC (June 17, 2014) Tehran ready to offer cash for British embassy attack - but no apology - The Guardian (May 18, 2014) UK and Iran discuss re-opening embassies - Telegraph (April 28, 2014) UK and Iran agree to re-establish direct diplomatic relations - The Guardian (February 20, 2014) Iran's largest private bank sues UK government for $4bn damages - BBC (February 17, 2014) Khamenei says US 'wouldn't hesitate' to topple Iranian regime if it could - Reuters (February 9, 2014) Bank Mellat to serve UK government with damages claim of up to £1bn - The Guardian (February 4, 2014) Jack Straw 'optimistic' over Iran future after Tehran visit - BBC (January 10, 2014) Iran claims to have captured MI6 spy - BBC (December 14, 2013) Iranian envoy to make first UK visit - BBC (December 11, 2013) New UK envoy Ajay Sharma to make Iran visit - BBC (December 2, 2013) Cameron makes first call to Iran's Rouhani - BBC (November 19, 2013) UK and Iran name charges d'affaires - BBC (November 11, 2013) Britain and Iran pave way for reopening of London and Tehran embassies - The Guardian (October 8, 2013) UK open to improving London-Tehran ties, says William Hague - The Guardian (July 31, 2013) Labour: UK 'missing opportunity' to engage with Iran - BBC (July 26, 2013) UK not attending Iran president's inauguration - The Guardian (July 24, 2013) Supreme court quashes Iran bank sanctions and criticises secret hearings - The Guardian (June 19, 2013) Iran accuses Britain of operating spy ring to undermine elections - The Independent (June 3, 2013) Iran deputy speaker condemns 2011 attack on UK embassy - BBC (April 5, 2013) Britain was wrong to close Tehran embassy, says David Miliband - The Guardian (January 31, 2013) Iran military action not 'right course at this time', Downing Street says - The Guardian (October 26, 2012) Britain rejects US request to use UK bases in nuclear standoff with Iran - The Guardian (October 25, 2012) Prime Minister David Cameron calls on Israel not to launch unilateral attack on Iran - The Independent (October 15, 2012) Storming British embassy in Iran was not right, says supreme leader - The Guardian (August 7, 2012) UK defence chiefs prepare for conflict with Iran over nuclear programme - The Guardian (May 23, 2012) Flynt Leverett: Going to Tehran - WPSU (May 2, 2013) UK 'will keep up pressure on Iran' - BBC (April 17, 2012) Hague condemns Tehran for blocking Foreign Office website - BBC (March 18, 2012) Iran accused of intimidating BBC Persian staff - BBC (February 3, 2012) Iran blocks UK Foreign Office website - BBC (December 22, 2011) British 'most secret' invasion plans seized at Iran embassy - 70 years on - The Guardian (December 5, 2011) Iran diplomats to leave UK after Tehran embassy attack - BBC (December 2, 2011) Coup that colours Anglo-Iranian relations - The Guardian (December 1, 2011) UK to expel all Iranian diplomats over embassy attack - BBC (November 30, 2011) UK withdraws diplomatic staff from Iran after attack - BBC (November 30, 2011) Hague says Iran will face 'serious consequences' over embassy attack - The Guardian (November 29, 2011) UK warns Iran after embassy stormed - BBC (November 29, 2011) Iran protesters storm UK embassy in Tehran - BBC (November 29, 2011) Iran parliament votes to downgrade relations with UK - BBC (November 27, 2011) Iranian MPs approve bill to reduce British diplomatic ties with Tehran - The Guardian (November 23, 2011) UK military steps up plans for Iran attack amid fresh nuclear fears - The Guardian (November 2, 2011) Blair criticises Iran and Syria - BBC (September 8, 2011) David Cameron: Britain caused many of the world's problems - Telegraph (April 5, 2011) David Cameron plans link-up with US and France for new sanctions on Iran - The Guardian (February 23, 2011) WikiLeaks cables: UK blocked $60m arms deal over fears of Iran link - The Guardian (February 23, 2011) UK's Thatcher Appealed To Iran Over US Hostages - AP (December 30, 2010) WikiLeaks cables: Iranian TV channel faced UK sanction over jamming row - The Guardian (December 21, 2010) Iranian politicians call for UK ambassador recall - BBC (December 13, 2010) WikiLeaks cables: US pressured British regulator to act against Iranian banks - The Guardian (December 13, 2010) US embassy cables: Foreign office talks tough on Iran - The Guardian (December 13, 2010) Pope helped to free British sailors held by Iran, WikiLeaks cables show - The Guardian (December 10, 2010) Briton teaches US diplomats how to talk to Iran - The Guardian (November 28, 2010) Iran lays claim to British Museum's Cyrus Cylinder - The Guardian (September 15, 2010) Cyrus Cylinder loaned to Iran by British Museum - BBC (September 10, 2010) Sleeping with the Enemy: BP's Deals with Iran - Time Magazine (June 16, 2010) Tony Blair slated for Iran threat claim - Times Online (January 30, 2010) Iran looks again at links with Britain - The Independent (January 18, 2010) National archives: how Britain told deposed Shah of Iran to stay away - The Guardian (December 29, 2009) British sailors seized in Iran apologise for families' ordeal - The Guardian (December 4, 2009) Skipper of UK-crewed yacht admits Iran waters 'mistake' - BBC (December 2, 2009) UK yacht crew detained by Iranian navy - BBC (November 30, 2009) UK to press Iran on embassy staff - BBC (July 5, 2009) UK seeks Iran trial clarification - BBC (July 4, 2009) UK 'deeply concerned' at arrests - BBC (June 28, 2009) Britain and Iran's fraught history - BBC (June 24, 2009) Iran attacks against UK tap into centuries of suspicion - CNN (June 24, 2009) UK expels two Iranian diplomats - BBC (June 23, 2009) Relations between old adversaries Britain and Iran hit new low - The Guardian (June 23, 2009) BBC Bias and the Iranian Revolution - BBC (March 23, 2009) British Council in Iran 'illegal' - BBC (February 5, 2009) British fear US commander is beating the drum for Iran strikes - Telegraph (April 5, 2008) MPs urging direct US-Iran talks - BBC (March 2, 2008) British GCHQ eavesdropping played role in US intelligence U-turn on Iran - The Guardian (December 6, 2007) Iran accuses Britain of digging tunnel to ferry spies into embassy - The Guardian (August 11, 2007) Brown evades question over Iran - BBC (May 26, 2007) Iran to release British sailors tomorrow - The Guardian (April 4, 2007) A bitter legacy - The Guardian (March 30, 2007) Fury as Iran shows footage of captured sailors on television - The Guardian (March 29, 2007) UK/Iran bilateral links suspended - BBC (March 28, 2007) Iranians blame UK for all that goes awry - The Guardian (March 25, 2007) Sailors fall foul of emerging regional superpower - The Guardian (March 24, 2007) Foreign Office demands Tehran frees sailors - The Guardian (March 23, 2007) No plans to attack Iran - Blair - BBC (February 6, 2007) Iran a 'major threat', says Blair - BBC (December 12, 2006) Britain took part in mock Iran invasion - The Guardian (April 15, 2006) UK dismisses talk of Iran attack - BBC (April 9, 2006) Iran calls for UK Iraq pull-out - BBC (February 17, 2006) Iran accuses UK of bombing link - BBC (January 25, 2006) Blair rejects action against Iran and Syria - Telegraph (January 23, 2006) Blair threatens UN action on Iran - BBC (January 11, 2006) Iran nuclear move 'concerns UK' - BBC (January 10, 2006) Iran bombs link: retraction or non-retraction? - BBC (January 10, 2006) Was Blair right to warn Iran? - BBC (October 7, 2005) Blair warns Iran over Iraq bombs - BBC (October 6, 2005) Tehran students attack UK embassy - BBC (September 28, 2005) Military action against Iran 'inconceivable', says Straw - The Guardian (September 28, 2005) Lib Dems challenge Blair to spell out Iran plans - The Guardian (April 23, 2005) Iran must beware of 'cunning' Britain in nuclear talks, says cleric - AFP (February 4, 2005) Can Straw tread softly while US turns its eye on Iran? - The Guardian (January 28, 2005) Straw emollient on Iran rift after US talks - The Guardian (January 25, 2005) BP chief's remarks enrage Iran - The Guardian (January 25, 2005) U.S.: British Foreign Secretary Says U.S. Committed To Diplomatic Approach Toward Iran - RFE (January 25, 2005) Straw flies to US for talks on Iran - The Guardian (January 24, 2005) Britain outlines case against attack on Iran: report - AFP (January 23, 2005) Straw: war on Iran 'inconceivable'- The Guardian (November 5, 2004) Straw defends diplomacy with Iran - BBC (July 4, 2004) Attack Iran, US chief ordered British - Telegraph (June 30, 2004) We must support Iran's evolution - The Guardian (June 27, 2004) Iran frees eight British sailors - The Guardian (June 25, 2004) Talks resume on crew held in Iran - BBC (June 24, 2004) Iran parades captured and blindfolded sailors on TV The - Guardian (June 23, 2004) Delicate UK-Iran ties under strain - BBC (June 21, 2004) HRH visits Iran to see the devastation of the Bam Earthquake (Feb. 15, 2004) Charles's goodwill visit to Iran - BBC (February 9, 2004) Prince Charles tours quake-hit Bam - The Guardian (February 9, 2004) UK refuses to extradite Iranian - BBC (November 13, 2003) Downturn in British-Iran relations is par for the course - AFP (September 16, 2003) Analysis: Iran's UK dilemma - BBC (September 3, 2003) Truck smashes into UK's Iran embassy - BBC (April 1, 2003) Britain's dirty secret - The Guardian (March 6, 2003) Blair tries to woo Iran into anti-Saddam pact - Telegraph (January 7, 2003) Iran rejects ambassador as 'MI6 agent' - The Guardian (February 8, 2002) Iran's love-hate relationship with the UK - BBC (September 29, 2001) Royal to-do over 'undignified festivities' - The Guardian (August 15, 2001) Iranian hardliners accuse Britain of fomenting revolt - 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Embassy Iran Embassy London British Embassy Tehran News Iran spreading 'bloodshed and destruction', says foreign secretary - BBC (November 18, 2022) When Britain backed Iran's dictator - Declassified (November 8, 2022) UK sanctions morality police over violent crackdown - BBC (October 11, 2022) Iran summons British ambassador after 'interventionist comments' - Reuters (October 4, 2022) Iran media attacks Queen's 'bloody legacy', while officials ignore death - The Independent (September 9, 2022) UK blames Iran for 'reckless' cyberattack on Albania - Reuters (September 7, 2022) Secret deals ending Britain's control in Gulf revealed - BBC (August 30, 2022) Iran grants environmental activist Morad Tahbaz bail - BBC (July 27 2022) Britain 'immediately' supported U.S. over shooting down of Iranian Airliner - Declassified UK (July 20, 2022) UK navy says it seized smuggled Iranian missiles - Reuters (July 7, 2022) Iran's nuclear escalation is a threat to international peace and security: UK at Security Council - Gov.UK (June 30, 2022) Daughter of Briton jailed in Iran says Father's Day is 'the hardest day of all'- Express & Star (June 17, 2022) No UK official forced Nazanin to sign confession - minister - BBC (May 24, 2022) Zaghari-Ratcliffe says Foreign Office complicit in forcing her to confess - The Guardian (May 23, 2022) Boris Johnson accepted officials' advice on £400m Iran debt, ex-minister says - The Guardian (May 17, 2022) Iran Says UK Funds Have Arrived, But It Still Chases Other Overseas Assets - Forbes (April 28, 2022) Iran has not received £400m agreed by UK at time of Zaghari-Ratcliffe release - The Guardian (April 27, 2022) UK seeks to strengthen economic ties With Iran: Johnson's Aide - ThePrint (April 21 2022) Morad Tahbaz: Daughter of Iran detainee holds protest - BBC (April 13, 2022) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: MPs to hold inquiry into delay over Iran debt payment - The Guardian (March 22, 2022) Morad Tahbaz: British-US national detained in Iran on hunger strike - BBC (March 21, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: I should have been freed six years ago - BBC (March 21, 2022) Iran made Ashoori family raise £27,000 in 12 hours to secure his release - The Guardian (March 18, 2022) 'They can't stop hugging': Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's reunion with her daughter - The Guardian (March 18, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release: 'If any couple is going to survive this, it's them' - BBC (March 18, 2022) Morad Tahbaz, released in Nazanin deal, back in Iran jail - BBC (March 18, 2022) Foreign Office urged Richard Ratcliffe not to make 'song and dance', says MP - The Guardian (March 17, 2022) UK looking at ways to pay historic Iranian debt, foreign secretary says - Reuters (March 16, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is free. But why now? And why did it take so long? - The Guardian (March 16, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori on way back to UK, Liz Truss confirms - The Guardian (March 16, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has had UK passport returned, says MP - The Guardian (March 15, 2022) Iranian ambassador to UK removed from post over hijab incident - The Guardian (February 27, 2022) Truss tells Iran she hopes UK will soon be able to repay £400m debt - The Guardian (February 15, 2022) Zaghari-Ratcliffe 'angry at her life being stolen' after deal for release collapses - The Guardian (February 13, 2022) BBC accuses Iran of escalating harassment of staff - BBC (February 10, 2022) Aras Amiri: British Council says jailed employee freed by Iran - BBC (January 12, 2022) Women stage global fast to pressure UK over Nazanin Zagari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (December 20, 2021) Iran says UK is discussing how to repay £400m debt - The Guardian (December 10, 2021) Britain and Israel to sign trade and defence deal - The Guardian (November 28, 2021 Don't mention UK's £400m debt to Iran in Commons, Zaghari-Ratcliffe's MP told - The Guardian (November 15, 2021 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband ending hunger strike after 21 days - BBC (November 13, 2021 UK tells Iran that sanctions prevent payment of £400m debt - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 Why an old £400m debt to Iran stands in way of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 'We should pay debt': Jeremy Hunt says £400m owed to Iran is not ransom money - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 After 17 days of hunger strike, I'm still trying to save Nazanin - The Guardian (November 9, 2021 Richard Ratcliffe on hunger strike: 'There's no plan to get Nazanin out' - The Guardian (November 5, 2021 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband begins new hunger strike in London - BBC (October 24, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe?s husband hits out at government handling of case - The Guardian (October 16, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: British-Iranian aid worker loses court appeal in Iran - BBC (October 16, 2021) RAF intelligence base linked to US drone strike on Iranian general Qassem Soleimani - The Guardian (October 2, 2021) Britain must repay £400m debt and lift sanctions, Iran tells Liz Truss - The Guardian (September 23, 2021) My dad, held hostage in Iran - BBC (September 20, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe campaign urges sanctions against 10 Iranians - The Guardian (September 19, 2021) UK ambassador angers Iran with 'insulting' embassy photo gaffe - The Guardian (August 12, 2021) UK condemns Iran's sentencing of British-Iranian national - Reuters (August 6, 2021) UK summons Iranian envoy over tanker attack - BBC (August 2, 2021) 'Highly likely' Iran was behind fatal oil tanker attack - Dominic Raab - The Guardian (August 1, 2021) Iranian hackers posed as British-based academic - BBC (July 13, 2021) Biden would not bar UK paying Iran debt to secure Nazanin's release - Antony Blinken - Evening Standard (May 6, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK and Iran in talks over debt but 'unlinked' to case - BBC (May 3, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran treatment 'amounts to torture', says Dominic Raab - BBC (May 2, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe sentenced to a year in Iran prison - BBC (April 26, 2021) Court hearing over UK's £400m tank deal debt to Iran postponed - The Guardian (April 19, 2021) Defence secretary says Britain must honour Iran debt linked to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case - Times Online (March 22, 2021) 'Hostage diplomacy' behind Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's Kafkaesque ordeal - The Guardian (March 14, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Tehran court on new charge - BBC (March 14, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe must be released 'permanently', says PM - BBC (March 8, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe released but faces new court date in Iran - BBC (March 7, 2021) Richard Ratcliffe still unsure if wife will be released on Sunday - The Guardian (March 6, 2021) Briton held in Iran 'completely shut off' after losing phone access - The Guardian (February 19, 2021) Kameel Ahmady: British-Iranian academic facing jail escapes Iran - BBC (February 3, 2021) Foreign Office tells Richard Ratcliffe to keep quiet as wife's release date nears - The Guardian (January 31, 2021) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK 'starting to look weak' over failure to protect citizens, says Hunt - The Guardian (December 29, 2020) 'Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a hostage: the government needs to call her that' - The Guardian (December 20, 2020) MPs say UK government strategy on Iran prisoners not working - The Guardian (December 15, 2020) British-Iranian academic sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran - The Guardian (December 13, 2020) Tehran exchanges Kylie Moore-Gilbert for three Iranians jailed abroad - The Guardian (November 25, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe avoids being returned to jail - The Guardian (November 2, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK expresses 'grave concern' over fresh court proceedings - The Guardian (October 29, 2020) Iran moves detained academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert back to Tehran prison - The Guardian (October 29, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to stand trial on fresh charges in Iran next week - The Guardian (October 28, 2020) Hopes for Kylie Moore-Gilbert after detained academic moved out of Iran's Qarchak prison - The Guardian (October 24, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Sentence served but no sign of freedom - Sky News (September 29, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe files report of Revolutionary Guards harassment - The Guardian (September 22, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe speaks of ordeal after trial postponement - The Guardian (September 13, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: New charge 'a political game', says husband - BBC (September 9, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe faces new charge, Iranian media reports - The Guardian (September 8, 2020) Will Britain Follow In America's Footsteps And Repay Iran For Undelivered Military Hardware? - Forbes (September 7, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK acknowledges debt owed to Iran over Shah's tank order - The Guardian (September 4, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert's every step being followed inside prison in Iran - The Guardian (September 2, 2020) UK delays Zaghari-Ratcliffe release for fear of offending Trump, lawyers claim - The Guardian (August 25, 2020) Mike Pompeo: 'I regret' Britain's Iran sanctions vote - Spectator (August 20, 2020) British spy's account sheds light on role in 1953 Iranian coup - The Guardian (August 17, 2020) Explanation of Vote on Non-proliferation (Iran) resolution - GOV.UK (August 14, 2020) Iran jails 'British spy': Former business associate of Tessa Jowell's husband - Daily Mail (August 11, 2020) Two Iranians sentenced to 10 years for spying - BBC (August 11, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert in good health in Iran with access to medical treatment and books, Dfat says - The Guardian (August 4, 2020) MI6, the coup in Iran that changed the Middle East, and the cover-up - The Guardian (August 2, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert: Lecturer jailed in Iran moved to remote prison - BBC (July 28, 2020) 'Radical change' needed for UK-Iran bilateral relations - Cranfield University PR (July 21, 2020) John Bolton: Boris Johnson 'playing Trump like a fiddle' - Politico (June 25, 2020) 1953 Iran coup: How a garbled message from 'Queen Elizabeth' bolstered the overthrow of Mosaddegh's government - The Independent (June 13, 2020) A message from 'Queen Elizabeth' to the shah played role in CIA 1953 coup in Iran, documentary says - NBC News (June 7, 2020) Revolutionary Guards block clemency for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (May 30, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to stay out of prison until Iran decides on fate - The Guardian (May 20, 2020) UK rejects plea for ambassador to visit Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Iran - The Guardian (May 17, 2020) Fears rise Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe may be returned to Iran jail - The Guardian (May 5, 2020) Threat to blow up besieged Iran embassy - archive, 1980 - The Guardian (May 1, 2020) In pictures: Iranian embassy siege in London - BBC (April 30, 2020) Iran extends Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's prison release by month - The Guardian (April 21, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe waiting to hear if she must return to prison - The Guardian (April 18, 2020) Iran temporarily frees British resident Aras Amiri on furlough - Amnesty - Reuters (April 9, 2020) Coronavirus relief workers appeal for release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (April 7, 2020) Iranian dual national Foroughi returns to UK, nine years after arrest - Reuters (April 1, 2020) INSTEX successfully concludes first transaction - GOV.UK (March 31, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe under consideration for clemency - The Guardian (March 29, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe's leave from prison to be extended by two weeks - The Guardian (March 28, 2020) UK presses US to ease Iran sanctions to help fight coronavirus - The Guardian (March 18, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe freed temporarily from Iranian prison - The Guardian (March 17, 2020) Iran's ambassador to UK reveals bilateral talks over £400m debt - The Guardian (March 15, 2020) UN experts demand Iran ceases harassing BBC Persian staff - BBC (March 11, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's health improves despite coronavirus fears - The Guardian (March 9, 2020) British ambassador returns to Iran after brief arrest last month - Reuters (February 6, 2020) Britain complicit in the crushing of Iran's Tudeh party - Qantara (February 5, 2020) Britain's Prince Charles wants to visit Iran: Sunday Times - Reuters (January 25, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband urges PM to be tough with Iran - The Guardian (January 23, 2020) The Zaghari-Ratcliffes' ordeal: a story of British arrogance, secret arms deals and Whitehall infighting - The Guardian (January 23, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: pay £400m debt in aid, urges husband - The Guardian (January 22, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: court hearing over £400m Iran debt may hasten release - The Guardian (January 21, 2020) How Britain helped Iran's Islamic regime destroy the left-wing opposition - Daily Maverick (January 21, 2020) Jailed British-Australian Kylie Moore-Gilbert rejected Iran's offer to work as a spy - The Guardian (January 20, 2020) Rob Macaire: Britain's ambassador to Iran heads back to UK - Sky News (January 15, 2020) Iran warns UK against 'any new mistake' after ambassador arrest - Sky News (January 14, 2020) Boris Johnson: PM urges Trump to come up with new Iran plan - BBC (January 14, 2020) UK summons Iran ambassador over diplomat's 'unacceptable' arrest - BBC (January 13, 2020) Iran regime 'at a crossroads', warns Raab - BBC (January 13, 2020) There's a chance for change in the Middle East and Britain has a role to play - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Dominic Raab warns Iran of 'pariah' status after ambassador arrest - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Iran summons UK ambassador amid row over his arrest - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Britain condemns Tehran's arrest of UK ambassador - BBC (January 12, 2020) UK ambassador arrested in Tehran - BBC (January 11, 2020) Boris Johnson urges Iran president to end military action - The Guardian (January 9, 2020) Iran attack: How much influence does UK have in US-Iran crisis? - BBC (January 8, 2020) Qasem Soleimani: PM 'will not lament' Iranian general's death - BBC (January 5, 2020) Boris Johnson: Qassem Suleimani was threat to all our interests - The Guardian (January 5, 2020) The Guardian view on Trump's war: UK goes from poodle to lapdog? - The Guardian (January 5, 2020) Royal Navy vessels sent to protect shipping in Strait of Hormuz - The Guardian (January 4, 2020) Boris Johnson's silence on Suleimani assassination is 'deafening' say critics - The Guardian (January 4, 2020) Foreign Office hardens Iran and Iraq travel advice - BBC (January 4, 2020) Revealed: David Miliband called off SAS strike on Iranian General Qassim Soleimani in 2007 - Telegraph (January 3, 2020) Qasem Soleimani: Boris Johnson not told about US airstrike - BBC (January 3, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Daughter of Briton jailed in Iran back in UK - BBC (October 11, 2019) Australian-UK blogger couple freed from Iran jail - BBC (October 5, 2019) Iranian spying charge 'preposterous', prisoner's wife says - BBC (September 27, 2019) Stena Impero: Iran 'still investigating' seized British tanker - BBC (September 25, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe must be released, Johnson tells Iran's president - BBC (September 24, 2019) Kylie Moore-Gilbert named as British-Australian academic held in Iran - BBC (September 14, 2019) Britain-Iran relationship caught up in mutual blame game - The Guardian (September 11, 2019) Iran 'convicts British-Iranian dual national of spying for Israel' - BBC (August 27, 2019) Aras Amiri: British Council worker jailed in Iran a 'bargaining chip' - BBC (August 21, 2019) Kameel Ahmady: British-Iranian academic 'arrested in Iran' - BBC (August 14, 2019) UK joins US in mission to protect oil tankers in Gulf - The Guardian (August 5, 2019) Iran ambassador's apparent olive branch could ease Gulf tensions - Sky News (July 31, 2019) Royal Marines used brute force, says tanker captain - BBC (July 30, 2019) Court ruling over tanks debt deals new blow to UK-Iran relations - The Guardian (July 26, 2019) Iran hints at ship swap with UK amid de-escalation efforts - The Guardian (July 24, 2019) Prime mover: Johnson and the UK-Iran crisis - ECFR (July 24, 2019) The 'Special' U.S.-U.K. Relationship is Bruised After Trump Officials Left U.K. Out of Iran Strike Planning - Time Magazine (July 23, 2019) Iran-UK tanker standoff: What is the next step for Britain? - DW (July 23, 2019) UK to seek European maritime mission to counter Iran's ' illegal acts of piracy' - The Guardian (July 22, 2019) Iran tanker seizure: May to chair Cobra meeting on crisis - BBC (July 22, 2019) The English Job by Jack Straw review - portrait of Iran's fixation with Britain - The Guardian (July 22, 2019) Jeremy Hunt under pressure to back plan for Gulf force as Iran digs in - The Guardian (July 21, 2019) Ministers 'considering freezing Iran assets' following tanker seizure - ITV (July 21, 2019) Tanker seizure: Jeremy Hunt urges Iran to release Stena Impero - BBC (July 20, 2019) UK to step up its military presence in Gulf amid crisis with Iran - The Guardian (July 12, 2019) Is the US nudging Britain into dangerous waters with Iran? - The Guardian (July 11, 2019) UK ships in Gulf on high alert after Royal Navy trains guns on Iranian vessels - The Guardian (July 11, 2019) Iranian boats 'tried to intercept British tanker' - BBC (July 11, 2019) Iran summons UK ambassador in tanker seizure row - BBC (July 4, 2019) The heedless drift towards war with Iran shames Britain - The Guardian (June 28, 2019) Will the UK's new prime minister take Trump's side on Iran? - Atlantic Council (June 23, 2019) Gulf of Oman: Iran protests to UK ambassador - BBC (June 16, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe begins new hunger strike - BBC (June 15, 2019) Aras Amiri: British Council names employee jailed by Iran - BBC (May 14, 2019) Iran 'jails British Council worker for spying for UK' - BBC (May 13, 2019) Iran accused of 'playing games' over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (April 27, 2019) Iranian woman in Australian jail drawn into Zaghari-Ratcliffe diplomatic dispute - The Guardian (April 25, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran offers prisoner swap - BBC (April 24, 2019) Iran rejects UK claim of diplomatic status for Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (March 8, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iranian-Briton to get diplomatic protection - BBC (March 7, 2019) Jeremy Hunt warns of Middle East 'first world war risk' on Iran visit - The Guardian (November 19, 2018) Hunt to appeal for release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe on Iran visit - The Guardian (November 18, 2018) Foreign Office advises dual UK-Iranian nationals against all but 'essential' travel to Iran - The Independent (September 19, 2018) US ambassador says UK should join Trump and put pressure on Iran - The Guardian (August 12, 2018) More people with UK links arrested in Iran - BBC (May 2, 2018) Abbas Edalat: Iran confirms arrest of British professor - BBC (April 29, 2018) BBC urges UN to act over harassment of journalists in Iran - The Guardian (March 11, 2018) British dual citizen sentenced to six-year jail term, Iran reveals - Reuters (March 11, 2018) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: question over delay in return of jailed British-Iranian - The Guardian (March 10, 2018) Hopes rise for release of Briton jailed in Iran after court hearing postponed - The Guardian (December 10, 2017) Johnson's talks on jailed Briton in Iran 'worthwhile' - BBC (December 10, 2017) Boris Johnson begins Iran talks over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (December 9, 2017) Britain preparing plan to transfer £400m to Iran as Boris Johnson vows to do everything to bring home Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Telegraph (November 15, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Government considers diplomatic protection - BBC (November 15, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case: Boris Johnson apologises over remarks - BBC (November 13, 2017) Boris Johnson to travel to US in bid to save Iran nuclear deal - The Guardian (November 2, 2017) Iran BBC complaint: UN urges Tehran to stop harassing staff - BBC (October 25, 2017) Iran to blame for cyber-attack on MPs' emails - British intelligence - The Guardian (October 13, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: More charges for mum in Iran - BBC (October 9, 2017) Tensions surface between UK and US over Iran nuclear deal - The Guardian (September 14, 2017) UK warned it needs new Middle East policy that does not rely on Trump - The Guardian (May 2, 2017) May refuses Netanyahu's call to impose new sanctions on Iran - The Guardian (February 6, 2017) Benjamin Netanyahu to press Theresa May for tougher line on Iran - The Guardian (February 5, 2017) Theresa May 'clear-eyed' over Iran threat - BBC (December 6, 2016) UK-Iranian mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe 'jailed on secret charges' - BBC (September 9, 2016) UK appoints first ambassador to Iran in five years - BBC (September 5, 2016) British Airways to resume direct flights to Iran - BBC (September 1, 2016) Iran accuses dual national of spying for British intelligence - BBC (August 16, 2016) May presses Iran over detained Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Reuters (August 9, 2016) Family of charity worker detained in Iran writes to foreign secretary - Press Association (July 26, 2016) Hopes for British-Iranian mother in jail in Iran - BBC (June 16, 2016) Iran accuses British mother, Nazanin Ratcliffe, of leading 'hostile network' to 'overthrow' regime - Telegraph (June 15, 2016) British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe detained for a month 'without charge' - BBC (May 9, 2016) Prince Charles 'plans' historic royal trip to Iran - The Independent (March 27, 2016) Iran and the UK: Bridging the Gulf - British Council (March 2016) Can Iran and the UK really bury the hatchet? - BBC (August 26, 2015) In Iran's eyes, Britain is still the 'old fox' - Telegraph (August 25, 2015) Philip Hammond declares new chapter with Iran in search for end to Syrian war - The Guardian (August 24, 2015) Iran-UK relations: 12 moments in a troubled history - The Guardian (August 23, 2015) Iran reopens embassy in London as Britain does the same in Tehran - The Guardian (August 23, 2015) British embassy in Tehran reopens four years after closure - BBC (August 23, 2015) Foreign Office relaxes Iran advice for British nationals - BBC (July 25, 2015) Tehran embassy re-opening will test troubled UK-Iran relations - The Guardian (July 17, 2015) UK hopes to reopen embassy in Iran by end of year, says Philip Hammond - The Guardian (July 15, 2015) Foreign Office 'did not stop Iraq making chemical weapons' - The Guardian (July 2, 2015) British-Iranian woman jailed over volleyball game sees charges dropped - The Guardian (April 2, 2015) Ghoncheh Ghavami: Charges dropped - but volleyball Briton must stay - The Independent (March 26, 2015) Volleyball woman Ghoncheh Ghavami out of Iran prison - BBC (November 23, 2014) Ghoncheh Ghavami's family devastated by year's jail sentence in Iran - video - The Guardian (November 3, 2014) Leaders of UK and Iran meet for first time since 1979 Islamic revolution - The Guardian (September 24, 2014) David Cameron to meet Iran leader over Isis campaign - The Guardian (September 22, 2014) UK to re-open Iran embassy says Hague - BBC (June 17, 2014) Tehran ready to offer cash for British embassy attack - but no apology - The Guardian (May 18, 2014) UK and Iran discuss re-opening embassies - Telegraph (April 28, 2014) UK and Iran agree to re-establish direct diplomatic relations - The Guardian (February 20, 2014) Iran's largest private bank sues UK government for $4bn damages - BBC (February 17, 2014) Khamenei says US 'wouldn't hesitate' to topple Iranian regime if it could - Reuters (February 9, 2014) Bank Mellat to serve UK government with damages claim of up to £1bn - The Guardian (February 4, 2014) Jack Straw 'optimistic' over Iran future after Tehran visit - BBC (January 10, 2014) Iran claims to have captured MI6 spy - BBC (December 14, 2013) Iranian envoy to make first UK visit - BBC (December 11, 2013) New UK envoy Ajay Sharma to make Iran visit - BBC (December 2, 2013) Cameron makes first call to Iran's Rouhani - BBC (November 19, 2013) UK and Iran name charges d'affaires - BBC (November 11, 2013) Britain and Iran pave way for reopening of London and Tehran embassies - The Guardian (October 8, 2013) UK open to improving London-Tehran ties, says William Hague - The Guardian (July 31, 2013) Labour: UK 'missing opportunity' to engage with Iran - BBC (July 26, 2013) UK not attending Iran president's inauguration - The Guardian (July 24, 2013) Supreme court quashes Iran bank sanctions and criticises secret hearings - The Guardian (June 19, 2013) Iran accuses Britain of operating spy ring to undermine elections - The Independent (June 3, 2013) Iran deputy speaker condemns 2011 attack on UK embassy - BBC (April 5, 2013) Britain was wrong to close Tehran embassy, says David Miliband - The Guardian (January 31, 2013) Iran military action not 'right course at this time', Downing Street says - The Guardian (October 26, 2012) Britain rejects US request to use UK bases in nuclear standoff with Iran - The Guardian (October 25, 2012) Prime Minister David Cameron calls on Israel not to launch unilateral attack on Iran - The Independent (October 15, 2012) Storming British embassy in Iran was not right, says supreme leader - The Guardian (August 7, 2012) UK defence chiefs prepare for conflict with Iran over nuclear programme - The Guardian (May 23, 2012) Flynt Leverett: Going to Tehran - WPSU (May 2, 2013) UK 'will keep up pressure on Iran' - BBC (April 17, 2012) Hague condemns Tehran for blocking Foreign Office website - BBC (March 18, 2012) Iran accused of intimidating BBC Persian staff - BBC (February 3, 2012) Iran blocks UK Foreign Office website - BBC (December 22, 2011) British 'most secret' invasion plans seized at Iran embassy - 70 years on - The Guardian (December 5, 2011) Iran diplomats to leave UK after Tehran embassy attack - BBC (December 2, 2011) Coup that colours Anglo-Iranian relations - The Guardian (December 1, 2011) UK to expel all Iranian diplomats over embassy attack - BBC (November 30, 2011) UK withdraws diplomatic staff from Iran after attack - BBC (November 30, 2011) Hague says Iran will face 'serious consequences' over embassy attack - The Guardian (November 29, 2011) UK warns Iran after embassy stormed - BBC (November 29, 2011) Iran protesters storm UK embassy in Tehran - BBC (November 29, 2011) Iran parliament votes to downgrade relations with UK - BBC (November 27, 2011) Iranian MPs approve bill to reduce British diplomatic ties with Tehran - The Guardian (November 23, 2011) UK military steps up plans for Iran attack amid fresh nuclear fears - The Guardian (November 2, 2011) Blair criticises Iran and Syria - BBC (September 8, 2011) David Cameron: Britain caused many of the world's problems - Telegraph (April 5, 2011) David Cameron plans link-up with US and France for new sanctions on Iran - The Guardian (February 23, 2011) WikiLeaks cables: UK blocked $60m arms deal over fears of Iran link - The Guardian (February 23, 2011) UK's Thatcher Appealed To Iran Over US Hostages - AP (December 30, 2010) WikiLeaks cables: Iranian TV channel faced UK sanction over jamming row - The Guardian (December 21, 2010) Iranian politicians call for UK ambassador recall - BBC (December 13, 2010) WikiLeaks cables: US pressured British regulator to act against Iranian banks - The Guardian (December 13, 2010) US embassy cables: Foreign office talks tough on Iran - The Guardian (December 13, 2010) Pope helped to free British sailors held by Iran, WikiLeaks cables show - The Guardian (December 10, 2010) Briton teaches US diplomats how to talk to Iran - The Guardian (November 28, 2010) Iran lays claim to British Museum's Cyrus Cylinder - The Guardian (September 15, 2010) Cyrus Cylinder loaned to Iran by British Museum - BBC (September 10, 2010) Sleeping with the Enemy: BP's Deals with Iran - Time Magazine (June 16, 2010) Tony Blair slated for Iran threat claim - Times Online (January 30, 2010) Iran looks again at links with Britain - The Independent (January 18, 2010) National archives: how Britain told deposed Shah of Iran to stay away - The Guardian (December 29, 2009) British sailors seized in Iran apologise for families' ordeal - The Guardian (December 4, 2009) Skipper of UK-crewed yacht admits Iran waters 'mistake' - BBC (December 2, 2009) UK yacht crew detained by Iranian navy - BBC (November 30, 2009) UK to press Iran on embassy staff - BBC (July 5, 2009) UK seeks Iran trial clarification - BBC (July 4, 2009) UK 'deeply concerned' at arrests - BBC (June 28, 2009) Britain and Iran's fraught history - BBC (June 24, 2009) Iran attacks against UK tap into centuries of suspicion - CNN (June 24, 2009) UK expels two Iranian diplomats - BBC (June 23, 2009) Relations between old adversaries Britain and Iran hit new low - The Guardian (June 23, 2009) BBC Bias and the Iranian Revolution - BBC (March 23, 2009) British Council in Iran 'illegal' - BBC (February 5, 2009) British fear US commander is beating the drum for Iran strikes - Telegraph (April 5, 2008) MPs urging direct US-Iran talks - BBC (March 2, 2008) British GCHQ eavesdropping played role in US intelligence U-turn on Iran - The Guardian (December 6, 2007) Iran accuses Britain of digging tunnel to ferry spies into embassy - The Guardian (August 11, 2007) Brown evades question over Iran - BBC (May 26, 2007) Iran to release British sailors tomorrow - The Guardian (April 4, 2007) A bitter legacy - The Guardian (March 30, 2007) Fury as Iran shows footage of captured sailors on television - The Guardian (March 29, 2007) UK/Iran bilateral links suspended - BBC (March 28, 2007) Iranians blame UK for all that goes awry - The Guardian (March 25, 2007) Sailors fall foul of emerging regional superpower - The Guardian (March 24, 2007) Foreign Office demands Tehran frees sailors - The Guardian (March 23, 2007) No plans to attack Iran - Blair - BBC (February 6, 2007) Iran a 'major threat', says Blair - BBC (December 12, 2006) Britain took part in mock Iran invasion - The Guardian (April 15, 2006) UK dismisses talk of Iran attack - BBC (April 9, 2006) Iran calls for UK Iraq pull-out - BBC (February 17, 2006) Iran accuses UK of bombing link - BBC (January 25, 2006) Blair rejects action against Iran and Syria - Telegraph (January 23, 2006) Blair threatens UN action on Iran - BBC (January 11, 2006) Iran nuclear move 'concerns UK' - BBC (January 10, 2006) Iran bombs link: retraction or non-retraction? - BBC (January 10, 2006) Was Blair right to warn Iran? - BBC (October 7, 2005) Blair warns Iran over Iraq bombs - BBC (October 6, 2005) Tehran students attack UK embassy - BBC (September 28, 2005) Military action against Iran 'inconceivable', says Straw - The Guardian (September 28, 2005) Lib Dems challenge Blair to spell out Iran plans - The Guardian (April 23, 2005) Iran must beware of 'cunning' Britain in nuclear talks, says cleric - AFP (February 4, 2005) Can Straw tread softly while US turns its eye on Iran? - The Guardian (January 28, 2005) Straw emollient on Iran rift after US talks - The Guardian (January 25, 2005) BP chief's remarks enrage Iran - The Guardian (January 25, 2005) U.S.: British Foreign Secretary Says U.S. Committed To Diplomatic Approach Toward Iran - RFE (January 25, 2005) Straw flies to US for talks on Iran - The Guardian (January 24, 2005) Britain outlines case against attack on Iran: report - AFP (January 23, 2005) Straw: war on Iran 'inconceivable'- The Guardian (November 5, 2004) Straw defends diplomacy with Iran - BBC (July 4, 2004) Attack Iran, US chief ordered British - Telegraph (June 30, 2004) We must support Iran's evolution - The Guardian (June 27, 2004) Iran frees eight British sailors - The Guardian (June 25, 2004) Talks resume on crew held in Iran - BBC (June 24, 2004) Iran parades captured and blindfolded sailors on TV The - Guardian (June 23, 2004) Delicate UK-Iran ties under strain - BBC (June 21, 2004) HRH visits Iran to see the devastation of the Bam Earthquake (Feb. 15, 2004) Charles's goodwill visit to Iran - BBC (February 9, 2004) Prince Charles tours quake-hit Bam - The Guardian (February 9, 2004) UK refuses to extradite Iranian - BBC (November 13, 2003) Downturn in British-Iran relations is par for the course - AFP (September 16, 2003) Analysis: Iran's UK dilemma - BBC (September 3, 2003) Truck smashes into UK's Iran embassy - BBC (April 1, 2003) Britain's dirty secret - The Guardian (March 6, 2003) Blair tries to woo Iran into anti-Saddam pact - Telegraph (January 7, 2003) Iran rejects ambassador as 'MI6 agent' - The Guardian (February 8, 2002) Iran's love-hate relationship with the UK - BBC (September 29, 2001) Royal to-do over 'undignified festivities' - The Guardian (August 15, 2001) Iranian hardliners accuse Britain of fomenting revolt - 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News Iran spreading 'bloodshed and destruction', says foreign secretary - BBC (November 18, 2022) When Britain backed Iran's dictator - Declassified (November 8, 2022) UK sanctions morality police over violent crackdown - BBC (October 11, 2022) Iran summons British ambassador after 'interventionist comments' - Reuters (October 4, 2022) Iran media attacks Queen's 'bloody legacy', while officials ignore death - The Independent (September 9, 2022) UK blames Iran for 'reckless' cyberattack on Albania - Reuters (September 7, 2022) Secret deals ending Britain's control in Gulf revealed - BBC (August 30, 2022) Iran grants environmental activist Morad Tahbaz bail - BBC (July 27 2022) Britain 'immediately' supported U.S. over shooting down of Iranian Airliner - Declassified UK (July 20, 2022) UK navy says it seized smuggled Iranian missiles - Reuters (July 7, 2022) Iran's nuclear escalation is a threat to international peace and security: UK at Security Council - Gov.UK (June 30, 2022) Daughter of Briton jailed in Iran says Father's Day is 'the hardest day of all'- Express & Star (June 17, 2022) No UK official forced Nazanin to sign confession - minister - BBC (May 24, 2022) Zaghari-Ratcliffe says Foreign Office complicit in forcing her to confess - The Guardian (May 23, 2022) Boris Johnson accepted officials' advice on £400m Iran debt, ex-minister says - The Guardian (May 17, 2022) Iran Says UK Funds Have Arrived, But It Still Chases Other Overseas Assets - Forbes (April 28, 2022) Iran has not received £400m agreed by UK at time of Zaghari-Ratcliffe release - The Guardian (April 27, 2022) UK seeks to strengthen economic ties With Iran: Johnson's Aide - ThePrint (April 21 2022) Morad Tahbaz: Daughter of Iran detainee holds protest - BBC (April 13, 2022) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: MPs to hold inquiry into delay over Iran debt payment - The Guardian (March 22, 2022) Morad Tahbaz: British-US national detained in Iran on hunger strike - BBC (March 21, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: I should have been freed six years ago - BBC (March 21, 2022) Iran made Ashoori family raise £27,000 in 12 hours to secure his release - The Guardian (March 18, 2022) 'They can't stop hugging': Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's reunion with her daughter - The Guardian (March 18, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release: 'If any couple is going to survive this, it's them' - BBC (March 18, 2022) Morad Tahbaz, released in Nazanin deal, back in Iran jail - BBC (March 18, 2022) Foreign Office urged Richard Ratcliffe not to make 'song and dance', says MP - The Guardian (March 17, 2022) UK looking at ways to pay historic Iranian debt, foreign secretary says - Reuters (March 16, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is free. But why now? And why did it take so long? - The Guardian (March 16, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori on way back to UK, Liz Truss confirms - The Guardian (March 16, 2022) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has had UK passport returned, says MP - The Guardian (March 15, 2022) Iranian ambassador to UK removed from post over hijab incident - The Guardian (February 27, 2022) Truss tells Iran she hopes UK will soon be able to repay £400m debt - The Guardian (February 15, 2022) Zaghari-Ratcliffe 'angry at her life being stolen' after deal for release collapses - The Guardian (February 13, 2022) BBC accuses Iran of escalating harassment of staff - BBC (February 10, 2022) Aras Amiri: British Council says jailed employee freed by Iran - BBC (January 12, 2022) Women stage global fast to pressure UK over Nazanin Zagari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (December 20, 2021) Iran says UK is discussing how to repay £400m debt - The Guardian (December 10, 2021) Britain and Israel to sign trade and defence deal - The Guardian (November 28, 2021 Don't mention UK's £400m debt to Iran in Commons, Zaghari-Ratcliffe's MP told - The Guardian (November 15, 2021 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband ending hunger strike after 21 days - BBC (November 13, 2021 UK tells Iran that sanctions prevent payment of £400m debt - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 Why an old £400m debt to Iran stands in way of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 'We should pay debt': Jeremy Hunt says £400m owed to Iran is not ransom money - The Guardian (November 11, 2021 After 17 days of hunger strike, I'm still trying to save Nazanin - The Guardian (November 9, 2021 Richard Ratcliffe on hunger strike: 'There's no plan to get Nazanin out' - The Guardian (November 5, 2021 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband begins new hunger strike in London - BBC (October 24, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe?s husband hits out at government handling of case - The Guardian (October 16, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: British-Iranian aid worker loses court appeal in Iran - BBC (October 16, 2021) RAF intelligence base linked to US drone strike on Iranian general Qassem Soleimani - The Guardian (October 2, 2021) Britain must repay £400m debt and lift sanctions, Iran tells Liz Truss - The Guardian (September 23, 2021) My dad, held hostage in Iran - BBC (September 20, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe campaign urges sanctions against 10 Iranians - The Guardian (September 19, 2021) UK ambassador angers Iran with 'insulting' embassy photo gaffe - The Guardian (August 12, 2021) UK condemns Iran's sentencing of British-Iranian national - Reuters (August 6, 2021) UK summons Iranian envoy over tanker attack - BBC (August 2, 2021) 'Highly likely' Iran was behind fatal oil tanker attack - Dominic Raab - The Guardian (August 1, 2021) Iranian hackers posed as British-based academic - BBC (July 13, 2021) Biden would not bar UK paying Iran debt to secure Nazanin's release - Antony Blinken - Evening Standard (May 6, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK and Iran in talks over debt but 'unlinked' to case - BBC (May 3, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran treatment 'amounts to torture', says Dominic Raab - BBC (May 2, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe sentenced to a year in Iran prison - BBC (April 26, 2021) Court hearing over UK's £400m tank deal debt to Iran postponed - The Guardian (April 19, 2021) Defence secretary says Britain must honour Iran debt linked to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case - Times Online (March 22, 2021) 'Hostage diplomacy' behind Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's Kafkaesque ordeal - The Guardian (March 14, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Tehran court on new charge - BBC (March 14, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe must be released 'permanently', says PM - BBC (March 8, 2021) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe released but faces new court date in Iran - BBC (March 7, 2021) Richard Ratcliffe still unsure if wife will be released on Sunday - The Guardian (March 6, 2021) Briton held in Iran 'completely shut off' after losing phone access - The Guardian (February 19, 2021) Kameel Ahmady: British-Iranian academic facing jail escapes Iran - BBC (February 3, 2021) Foreign Office tells Richard Ratcliffe to keep quiet as wife's release date nears - The Guardian (January 31, 2021) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK 'starting to look weak' over failure to protect citizens, says Hunt - The Guardian (December 29, 2020) 'Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a hostage: the government needs to call her that' - The Guardian (December 20, 2020) MPs say UK government strategy on Iran prisoners not working - The Guardian (December 15, 2020) British-Iranian academic sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran - The Guardian (December 13, 2020) Tehran exchanges Kylie Moore-Gilbert for three Iranians jailed abroad - The Guardian (November 25, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe avoids being returned to jail - The Guardian (November 2, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK expresses 'grave concern' over fresh court proceedings - The Guardian (October 29, 2020) Iran moves detained academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert back to Tehran prison - The Guardian (October 29, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to stand trial on fresh charges in Iran next week - The Guardian (October 28, 2020) Hopes for Kylie Moore-Gilbert after detained academic moved out of Iran's Qarchak prison - The Guardian (October 24, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Sentence served but no sign of freedom - Sky News (September 29, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe files report of Revolutionary Guards harassment - The Guardian (September 22, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe speaks of ordeal after trial postponement - The Guardian (September 13, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: New charge 'a political game', says husband - BBC (September 9, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe faces new charge, Iranian media reports - The Guardian (September 8, 2020) Will Britain Follow In America's Footsteps And Repay Iran For Undelivered Military Hardware? - Forbes (September 7, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK acknowledges debt owed to Iran over Shah's tank order - The Guardian (September 4, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert's every step being followed inside prison in Iran - The Guardian (September 2, 2020) UK delays Zaghari-Ratcliffe release for fear of offending Trump, lawyers claim - The Guardian (August 25, 2020) Mike Pompeo: 'I regret' Britain's Iran sanctions vote - Spectator (August 20, 2020) British spy's account sheds light on role in 1953 Iranian coup - The Guardian (August 17, 2020) Explanation of Vote on Non-proliferation (Iran) resolution - GOV.UK (August 14, 2020) Iran jails 'British spy': Former business associate of Tessa Jowell's husband - Daily Mail (August 11, 2020) Two Iranians sentenced to 10 years for spying - BBC (August 11, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert in good health in Iran with access to medical treatment and books, Dfat says - The Guardian (August 4, 2020) MI6, the coup in Iran that changed the Middle East, and the cover-up - The Guardian (August 2, 2020) Kylie Moore-Gilbert: Lecturer jailed in Iran moved to remote prison - BBC (July 28, 2020) 'Radical change' needed for UK-Iran bilateral relations - Cranfield University PR (July 21, 2020) John Bolton: Boris Johnson 'playing Trump like a fiddle' - Politico (June 25, 2020) 1953 Iran coup: How a garbled message from 'Queen Elizabeth' bolstered the overthrow of Mosaddegh's government - The Independent (June 13, 2020) A message from 'Queen Elizabeth' to the shah played role in CIA 1953 coup in Iran, documentary says - NBC News (June 7, 2020) Revolutionary Guards block clemency for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (May 30, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to stay out of prison until Iran decides on fate - The Guardian (May 20, 2020) UK rejects plea for ambassador to visit Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Iran - The Guardian (May 17, 2020) Fears rise Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe may be returned to Iran jail - The Guardian (May 5, 2020) Threat to blow up besieged Iran embassy - archive, 1980 - The Guardian (May 1, 2020) In pictures: Iranian embassy siege in London - BBC (April 30, 2020) Iran extends Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's prison release by month - The Guardian (April 21, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe waiting to hear if she must return to prison - The Guardian (April 18, 2020) Iran temporarily frees British resident Aras Amiri on furlough - Amnesty - Reuters (April 9, 2020) Coronavirus relief workers appeal for release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (April 7, 2020) Iranian dual national Foroughi returns to UK, nine years after arrest - Reuters (April 1, 2020) INSTEX successfully concludes first transaction - GOV.UK (March 31, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe under consideration for clemency - The Guardian (March 29, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe's leave from prison to be extended by two weeks - The Guardian (March 28, 2020) UK presses US to ease Iran sanctions to help fight coronavirus - The Guardian (March 18, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe freed temporarily from Iranian prison - The Guardian (March 17, 2020) Iran's ambassador to UK reveals bilateral talks over £400m debt - The Guardian (March 15, 2020) UN experts demand Iran ceases harassing BBC Persian staff - BBC (March 11, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's health improves despite coronavirus fears - The Guardian (March 9, 2020) British ambassador returns to Iran after brief arrest last month - Reuters (February 6, 2020) Britain complicit in the crushing of Iran's Tudeh party - Qantara (February 5, 2020) Britain's Prince Charles wants to visit Iran: Sunday Times - Reuters (January 25, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband urges PM to be tough with Iran - The Guardian (January 23, 2020) The Zaghari-Ratcliffes' ordeal: a story of British arrogance, secret arms deals and Whitehall infighting - The Guardian (January 23, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: pay £400m debt in aid, urges husband - The Guardian (January 22, 2020) Zaghari-Ratcliffe: court hearing over £400m Iran debt may hasten release - The Guardian (January 21, 2020) How Britain helped Iran's Islamic regime destroy the left-wing opposition - Daily Maverick (January 21, 2020) Jailed British-Australian Kylie Moore-Gilbert rejected Iran's offer to work as a spy - The Guardian (January 20, 2020) Rob Macaire: Britain's ambassador to Iran heads back to UK - Sky News (January 15, 2020) Iran warns UK against 'any new mistake' after ambassador arrest - Sky News (January 14, 2020) Boris Johnson: PM urges Trump to come up with new Iran plan - BBC (January 14, 2020) UK summons Iran ambassador over diplomat's 'unacceptable' arrest - BBC (January 13, 2020) Iran regime 'at a crossroads', warns Raab - BBC (January 13, 2020) There's a chance for change in the Middle East and Britain has a role to play - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Dominic Raab warns Iran of 'pariah' status after ambassador arrest - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Iran summons UK ambassador amid row over his arrest - The Guardian (January 12, 2020) Britain condemns Tehran's arrest of UK ambassador - BBC (January 12, 2020) UK ambassador arrested in Tehran - BBC (January 11, 2020) Boris Johnson urges Iran president to end military action - The Guardian (January 9, 2020) Iran attack: How much influence does UK have in US-Iran crisis? - BBC (January 8, 2020) Qasem Soleimani: PM 'will not lament' Iranian general's death - BBC (January 5, 2020) Boris Johnson: Qassem Suleimani was threat to all our interests - The Guardian (January 5, 2020) The Guardian view on Trump's war: UK goes from poodle to lapdog? - The Guardian (January 5, 2020) Royal Navy vessels sent to protect shipping in Strait of Hormuz - The Guardian (January 4, 2020) Boris Johnson's silence on Suleimani assassination is 'deafening' say critics - The Guardian (January 4, 2020) Foreign Office hardens Iran and Iraq travel advice - BBC (January 4, 2020) Revealed: David Miliband called off SAS strike on Iranian General Qassim Soleimani in 2007 - Telegraph (January 3, 2020) Qasem Soleimani: Boris Johnson not told about US airstrike - BBC (January 3, 2020) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Daughter of Briton jailed in Iran back in UK - BBC (October 11, 2019) Australian-UK blogger couple freed from Iran jail - BBC (October 5, 2019) Iranian spying charge 'preposterous', prisoner's wife says - BBC (September 27, 2019) Stena Impero: Iran 'still investigating' seized British tanker - BBC (September 25, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe must be released, Johnson tells Iran's president - BBC (September 24, 2019) Kylie Moore-Gilbert named as British-Australian academic held in Iran - BBC (September 14, 2019) Britain-Iran relationship caught up in mutual blame game - The Guardian (September 11, 2019) Iran 'convicts British-Iranian dual national of spying for Israel' - BBC (August 27, 2019) Aras Amiri: British Council worker jailed in Iran a 'bargaining chip' - BBC (August 21, 2019) Kameel Ahmady: British-Iranian academic 'arrested in Iran' - BBC (August 14, 2019) UK joins US in mission to protect oil tankers in Gulf - The Guardian (August 5, 2019) Iran ambassador's apparent olive branch could ease Gulf tensions - Sky News (July 31, 2019) Royal Marines used brute force, says tanker captain - BBC (July 30, 2019) Court ruling over tanks debt deals new blow to UK-Iran relations - The Guardian (July 26, 2019) Iran hints at ship swap with UK amid de-escalation efforts - The Guardian (July 24, 2019) Prime mover: Johnson and the UK-Iran crisis - ECFR (July 24, 2019) The 'Special' U.S.-U.K. Relationship is Bruised After Trump Officials Left U.K. Out of Iran Strike Planning - Time Magazine (July 23, 2019) Iran-UK tanker standoff: What is the next step for Britain? - DW (July 23, 2019) UK to seek European maritime mission to counter Iran's ' illegal acts of piracy' - The Guardian (July 22, 2019) Iran tanker seizure: May to chair Cobra meeting on crisis - BBC (July 22, 2019) The English Job by Jack Straw review - portrait of Iran's fixation with Britain - The Guardian (July 22, 2019) Jeremy Hunt under pressure to back plan for Gulf force as Iran digs in - The Guardian (July 21, 2019) Ministers 'considering freezing Iran assets' following tanker seizure - ITV (July 21, 2019) Tanker seizure: Jeremy Hunt urges Iran to release Stena Impero - BBC (July 20, 2019) UK to step up its military presence in Gulf amid crisis with Iran - The Guardian (July 12, 2019) Is the US nudging Britain into dangerous waters with Iran? - The Guardian (July 11, 2019) UK ships in Gulf on high alert after Royal Navy trains guns on Iranian vessels - The Guardian (July 11, 2019) Iranian boats 'tried to intercept British tanker' - BBC (July 11, 2019) Iran summons UK ambassador in tanker seizure row - BBC (July 4, 2019) The heedless drift towards war with Iran shames Britain - The Guardian (June 28, 2019) Will the UK's new prime minister take Trump's side on Iran? - Atlantic Council (June 23, 2019) Gulf of Oman: Iran protests to UK ambassador - BBC (June 16, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe begins new hunger strike - BBC (June 15, 2019) Aras Amiri: British Council names employee jailed by Iran - BBC (May 14, 2019) Iran 'jails British Council worker for spying for UK' - BBC (May 13, 2019) Iran accused of 'playing games' over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (April 27, 2019) Iranian woman in Australian jail drawn into Zaghari-Ratcliffe diplomatic dispute - The Guardian (April 25, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran offers prisoner swap - BBC (April 24, 2019) Iran rejects UK claim of diplomatic status for Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (March 8, 2019) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iranian-Briton to get diplomatic protection - BBC (March 7, 2019) Jeremy Hunt warns of Middle East 'first world war risk' on Iran visit - The Guardian (November 19, 2018) Hunt to appeal for release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe on Iran visit - The Guardian (November 18, 2018) Foreign Office advises dual UK-Iranian nationals against all but 'essential' travel to Iran - The Independent (September 19, 2018) US ambassador says UK should join Trump and put pressure on Iran - The Guardian (August 12, 2018) More people with UK links arrested in Iran - BBC (May 2, 2018) Abbas Edalat: Iran confirms arrest of British professor - BBC (April 29, 2018) BBC urges UN to act over harassment of journalists in Iran - The Guardian (March 11, 2018) British dual citizen sentenced to six-year jail term, Iran reveals - Reuters (March 11, 2018) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: question over delay in return of jailed British-Iranian - The Guardian (March 10, 2018) Hopes rise for release of Briton jailed in Iran after court hearing postponed - The Guardian (December 10, 2017) Johnson's talks on jailed Briton in Iran 'worthwhile' - BBC (December 10, 2017) Boris Johnson begins Iran talks over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - The Guardian (December 9, 2017) Britain preparing plan to transfer £400m to Iran as Boris Johnson vows to do everything to bring home Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Telegraph (November 15, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Government considers diplomatic protection - BBC (November 15, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case: Boris Johnson apologises over remarks - BBC (November 13, 2017) Boris Johnson to travel to US in bid to save Iran nuclear deal - The Guardian (November 2, 2017) Iran BBC complaint: UN urges Tehran to stop harassing staff - BBC (October 25, 2017) Iran to blame for cyber-attack on MPs' emails - British intelligence - The Guardian (October 13, 2017) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: More charges for mum in Iran - BBC (October 9, 2017) Tensions surface between UK and US over Iran nuclear deal - The Guardian (September 14, 2017) UK warned it needs new Middle East policy that does not rely on Trump - The Guardian (May 2, 2017) May refuses Netanyahu's call to impose new sanctions on Iran - The Guardian (February 6, 2017) Benjamin Netanyahu to press Theresa May for tougher line on Iran - The Guardian (February 5, 2017) Theresa May 'clear-eyed' over Iran threat - BBC (December 6, 2016) UK-Iranian mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe 'jailed on secret charges' - BBC (September 9, 2016) UK appoints first ambassador to Iran in five years - BBC (September 5, 2016) British Airways to resume direct flights to Iran - BBC (September 1, 2016) Iran accuses dual national of spying for British intelligence - BBC (August 16, 2016) May presses Iran over detained Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Reuters (August 9, 2016) Family of charity worker detained in Iran writes to foreign secretary - Press Association (July 26, 2016) Hopes for British-Iranian mother in jail in Iran - BBC (June 16, 2016) Iran accuses British mother, Nazanin Ratcliffe, of leading 'hostile network' to 'overthrow' regime - Telegraph (June 15, 2016) British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe detained for a month 'without charge' - BBC (May 9, 2016) Prince Charles 'plans' historic royal trip to Iran - The Independent (March 27, 2016) Iran and the UK: Bridging the Gulf - British Council (March 2016) Can Iran and the UK really bury the hatchet? - BBC (August 26, 2015) In Iran's eyes, Britain is still the 'old fox' - Telegraph (August 25, 2015) Philip Hammond declares new chapter with Iran in search for end to Syrian war - The Guardian (August 24, 2015) Iran-UK relations: 12 moments in a troubled history - The Guardian (August 23, 2015) Iran reopens embassy in London as Britain does the same in Tehran - The Guardian (August 23, 2015) British embassy in Tehran reopens four years after closure - BBC (August 23, 2015) Foreign Office relaxes Iran advice for British nationals - BBC (July 25, 2015) Tehran embassy re-opening will test troubled UK-Iran relations - The Guardian (July 17, 2015) UK hopes to reopen embassy in Iran by end of year, says Philip Hammond - The Guardian (July 15, 2015) Foreign Office 'did not stop Iraq making chemical weapons' - The Guardian (July 2, 2015) British-Iranian woman jailed over volleyball game sees charges dropped - The Guardian (April 2, 2015) Ghoncheh Ghavami: Charges dropped - but volleyball Briton must stay - The Independent (March 26, 2015) Volleyball woman Ghoncheh Ghavami out of Iran prison - BBC (November 23, 2014) Ghoncheh Ghavami's family devastated by year's jail sentence in Iran - video - The Guardian (November 3, 2014) Leaders of UK and Iran meet for first time since 1979 Islamic revolution - The Guardian (September 24, 2014) David Cameron to meet Iran leader over Isis campaign - The Guardian (September 22, 2014) UK to re-open Iran embassy says Hague - BBC (June 17, 2014) Tehran ready to offer cash for British embassy attack - but no apology - The Guardian (May 18, 2014) UK and Iran discuss re-opening embassies - Telegraph (April 28, 2014) UK and Iran agree to re-establish direct diplomatic relations - The Guardian (February 20, 2014) Iran's largest private bank sues UK government for $4bn damages - BBC (February 17, 2014) Khamenei says US 'wouldn't hesitate' to topple Iranian regime if it could - Reuters (February 9, 2014) Bank Mellat to serve UK government with damages claim of up to £1bn - The Guardian (February 4, 2014) Jack Straw 'optimistic' over Iran future after Tehran visit - BBC (January 10, 2014) Iran claims to have captured MI6 spy - BBC (December 14, 2013) Iranian envoy to make first UK visit - BBC (December 11, 2013) New UK envoy Ajay Sharma to make Iran visit - BBC (December 2, 2013) Cameron makes first call to Iran's Rouhani - BBC (November 19, 2013) UK and Iran name charges d'affaires - BBC (November 11, 2013) Britain and Iran pave way for reopening of London and Tehran embassies - The Guardian (October 8, 2013) UK open to improving London-Tehran ties, says William Hague - The Guardian (July 31, 2013) Labour: UK 'missing opportunity' to engage with Iran - BBC (July 26, 2013) UK not attending Iran president's inauguration - The Guardian (July 24, 2013) Supreme court quashes Iran bank sanctions and criticises secret hearings - The Guardian (June 19, 2013) Iran accuses Britain of operating spy ring to undermine elections - The Independent (June 3, 2013) Iran deputy speaker condemns 2011 attack on UK embassy - BBC (April 5, 2013) Britain was wrong to close Tehran embassy, says David Miliband - The Guardian (January 31, 2013) Iran military action not 'right course at this time', Downing Street says - The Guardian (October 26, 2012) Britain rejects US request to use UK bases in nuclear standoff with Iran - The Guardian (October 25, 2012) Prime Minister David Cameron calls on Israel not to launch unilateral attack on Iran - The Independent (October 15, 2012) Storming British embassy in Iran was not right, says supreme leader - The Guardian (August 7, 2012) UK defence chiefs prepare for conflict with Iran over nuclear programme - The Guardian (May 23, 2012) Flynt Leverett: Going to Tehran - WPSU (May 2, 2013) UK 'will keep up pressure on Iran' - BBC (April 17, 2012) Hague condemns Tehran for blocking Foreign Office website - BBC (March 18, 2012) Iran accused of intimidating BBC Persian staff - BBC (February 3, 2012) Iran blocks UK Foreign Office website - BBC (December 22, 2011) British 'most secret' invasion plans seized at Iran embassy - 70 years on - The Guardian (December 5, 2011) Iran diplomats to leave UK after Tehran embassy attack - BBC (December 2, 2011) Coup that colours Anglo-Iranian relations - The Guardian (December 1, 2011) UK to expel all Iranian diplomats over embassy attack - BBC (November 30, 2011) UK withdraws diplomatic staff from Iran after attack - BBC (November 30, 2011) Hague says Iran will face 'serious consequences' over embassy attack - The Guardian (November 29, 2011) UK warns Iran after embassy stormed - BBC (November 29, 2011) Iran protesters storm UK embassy in Tehran - BBC (November 29, 2011) Iran parliament votes to downgrade relations with UK - BBC (November 27, 2011) Iranian MPs approve bill to reduce British diplomatic ties with Tehran - The Guardian (November 23, 2011) UK military steps up plans for Iran attack amid fresh nuclear fears - The Guardian (November 2, 2011) Blair criticises Iran and Syria - BBC (September 8, 2011) David Cameron: Britain caused many of the world's problems - Telegraph (April 5, 2011) David Cameron plans link-up with US and France for new sanctions on Iran - The Guardian (February 23, 2011) WikiLeaks cables: UK blocked $60m arms deal over fears of Iran link - The Guardian (February 23, 2011) UK's Thatcher Appealed To Iran Over US Hostages - AP (December 30, 2010) WikiLeaks cables: Iranian TV channel faced UK sanction over jamming row - The Guardian (December 21, 2010) Iranian politicians call for UK ambassador recall - BBC (December 13, 2010) WikiLeaks cables: US pressured British regulator to act against Iranian banks - The Guardian (December 13, 2010) US embassy cables: Foreign office talks tough on Iran - The Guardian (December 13, 2010) Pope helped to free British sailors held by Iran, WikiLeaks cables show - The Guardian (December 10, 2010) Briton teaches US diplomats how to talk to Iran - The Guardian (November 28, 2010) Iran lays claim to British Museum's Cyrus Cylinder - The Guardian (September 15, 2010) Cyrus Cylinder loaned to Iran by British Museum - BBC (September 10, 2010) Sleeping with the Enemy: BP's Deals with Iran - Time Magazine (June 16, 2010) Tony Blair slated for Iran threat claim - Times Online (January 30, 2010) Iran looks again at links with Britain - The Independent (January 18, 2010) National archives: how Britain told deposed Shah of Iran to stay away - The Guardian (December 29, 2009) British sailors seized in Iran apologise for families' ordeal - The Guardian (December 4, 2009) Skipper of UK-crewed yacht admits Iran waters 'mistake' - BBC (December 2, 2009) UK yacht crew detained by Iranian navy - BBC (November 30, 2009) UK to press Iran on embassy staff - BBC (July 5, 2009) UK seeks Iran trial clarification - BBC (July 4, 2009) UK 'deeply concerned' at arrests - BBC (June 28, 2009) Britain and Iran's fraught history - BBC (June 24, 2009) Iran attacks against UK tap into centuries of suspicion - CNN (June 24, 2009) UK expels two Iranian diplomats - BBC (June 23, 2009) Relations between old adversaries Britain and Iran hit new low - The Guardian (June 23, 2009) BBC Bias and the Iranian Revolution - BBC (March 23, 2009) British Council in Iran 'illegal' - BBC (February 5, 2009) British fear US commander is beating the drum for Iran strikes - Telegraph (April 5, 2008) MPs urging direct US-Iran talks - BBC (March 2, 2008) British GCHQ eavesdropping played role in US intelligence U-turn on Iran - The Guardian (December 6, 2007) Iran accuses Britain of digging tunnel to ferry spies into embassy - The Guardian (August 11, 2007) Brown evades question over Iran - BBC (May 26, 2007) Iran to release British sailors tomorrow - The Guardian (April 4, 2007) A bitter legacy - The Guardian (March 30, 2007) Fury as Iran shows footage of captured sailors on television - The Guardian (March 29, 2007) UK/Iran bilateral links suspended - BBC (March 28, 2007) Iranians blame UK for all that goes awry - The Guardian (March 25, 2007) Sailors fall foul of emerging regional superpower - The Guardian (March 24, 2007) Foreign Office demands Tehran frees sailors - The Guardian (March 23, 2007) No plans to attack Iran - Blair - BBC (February 6, 2007) Iran a 'major threat', says Blair - BBC (December 12, 2006) Britain took part in mock Iran invasion - The Guardian (April 15, 2006) UK dismisses talk of Iran attack - BBC (April 9, 2006) Iran calls for UK Iraq pull-out - BBC (February 17, 2006) Iran accuses UK of bombing link - BBC (January 25, 2006) Blair rejects action against Iran and Syria - Telegraph (January 23, 2006) Blair threatens UN action on Iran - BBC (January 11, 2006) Iran nuclear move 'concerns UK' - BBC (January 10, 2006) Iran bombs link: retraction or non-retraction? - BBC (January 10, 2006) Was Blair right to warn Iran? - BBC (October 7, 2005) Blair warns Iran over Iraq bombs - BBC (October 6, 2005) Tehran students attack UK embassy - BBC (September 28, 2005) Military action against Iran 'inconceivable', says Straw - The Guardian (September 28, 2005) Lib Dems challenge Blair to spell out Iran plans - The Guardian (April 23, 2005) Iran must beware of 'cunning' Britain in nuclear talks, says cleric - AFP (February 4, 2005) Can Straw tread softly while US turns its eye on Iran? - The Guardian (January 28, 2005) Straw emollient on Iran rift after US talks - The Guardian (January 25, 2005) BP chief's remarks enrage Iran - The Guardian (January 25, 2005) U.S.: British Foreign Secretary Says U.S. Committed To Diplomatic Approach Toward Iran - RFE (January 25, 2005) Straw flies to US for talks on Iran - The Guardian (January 24, 2005) Britain outlines case against attack on Iran: report - AFP (January 23, 2005) Straw: war on Iran 'inconceivable'- The Guardian (November 5, 2004) Straw defends diplomacy with Iran - BBC (July 4, 2004) Attack Iran, US chief ordered British - Telegraph (June 30, 2004) We must support Iran's evolution - The Guardian (June 27, 2004) Iran frees eight British sailors - The Guardian (June 25, 2004) Talks resume on crew held in Iran - BBC (June 24, 2004) Iran parades captured and blindfolded sailors on TV The - Guardian (June 23, 2004) Delicate UK-Iran ties under strain - BBC (June 21, 2004) HRH visits Iran to see the devastation of the Bam Earthquake (Feb. 15, 2004) Charles's goodwill visit to Iran - BBC (February 9, 2004) Prince Charles tours quake-hit Bam - The Guardian (February 9, 2004) UK refuses to extradite Iranian - BBC (November 13, 2003) Downturn in British-Iran relations is par for the course - AFP (September 16, 2003) Analysis: Iran's UK dilemma - BBC (September 3, 2003) Truck smashes into UK's Iran embassy - BBC (April 1, 2003) Britain's dirty secret - The Guardian (March 6, 2003) Blair tries to woo Iran into anti-Saddam pact - Telegraph (January 7, 2003) Iran rejects ambassador as 'MI6 agent' - The Guardian (February 8, 2002) Iran's love-hate relationship with the UK - BBC (September 29, 2001) Royal to-do over 'undignified festivities' - The Guardian (August 15, 2001) Iranian hardliners accuse Britain of fomenting revolt - The Guardian (November 28 2000) Iranian Embassy Siege 1980 - BBC Salman Rushdie, British Petroleum (BP) and Iran The BBC Persian Service 1941-1979 British Intelligence and Policy on Persia (Iran) Books The English Job: Understanding Iran and Why It Distrusts Britain-by Jack Straw UK?Iran Relations and Brexit-Nicole Grajewski Persian service: the BBC and British interests in Iran-by Sreberny, Annabelle and Torfeh, Massoumeh Britain's Persian connection, 1798-1828: prelude to the great game in Asia-by Edward Ingram Russia and Britain in Persia, 1864-1914: A Study in Imperialism-by Firuz Kazemzadeh Great Britain & Reza Shah: The Plunder of Iran, 1921-1941-by Mohammad Gholi Majd Video Youtube Related Links EU's Relations with Iran (European Union) Foreign relations of Iran Front Page
Books The English Job: Understanding Iran and Why It Distrusts Britain-by Jack Straw UK?Iran Relations and Brexit-Nicole Grajewski Persian service: the BBC and British interests in Iran-by Sreberny, Annabelle and Torfeh, Massoumeh Britain's Persian connection, 1798-1828: prelude to the great game in Asia-by Edward Ingram Russia and Britain in Persia, 1864-1914: A Study in Imperialism-by Firuz Kazemzadeh Great Britain & Reza Shah: The Plunder of Iran, 1921-1941-by Mohammad Gholi Majd Video Youtube Related Links EU's Relations with Iran (European Union) Foreign relations of Iran Front Page
Video Youtube Related Links EU's Relations with Iran (European Union) Foreign relations of Iran Front Page
Related Links EU's Relations with Iran (European Union) Foreign relations of Iran Front Page
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