Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: jailed mother ‘traumatised’ by escalating Iran crisis

The British-Iranian mother fears she will be used as a ‘pawn’ by rival powers

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe with her daughter, Gabriella, now five
(Image credit: Twitter)

A British-Iranian mother detained in an Iranian jail on contested spying charges fears she may be imprisoned even longer because of the US’s assassination of General Qassem Soleimani.

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