UK foreign minister arrives in Iran to lobby for jailed aid worker
By Reuters
09 December 2017 |
3:25 pm
British foreign minister Boris Johnson arrived on Saturday (December 9) in Iran, where he is expected to lobby his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif for the release of jailed Iranian-British aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
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