UK’s Boris Johnson forced to call Iran after aid worker gaffe
By Reuters
08 November 2017 |
8:00 am
Comments by British foreign minister Boris Johnson about the case of Iranian-British aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe can form no "justifiable basis" for further action against her, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
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