Iran Crisis: Johnson paralysed as Nazanin faces even longer prison term
Nazanin: Thanks to Boris Johnson’s uselessness, it’s doubtful she’s smiling now.
Back in the day, if a British citizen faced harm abroad, the prime minister would snap into action immediately.
Lord Palmerston sent a gunboat and blockaded Athens in the Don Pacifico affair, to quote just one example from 1850.
Today, 170 years later, we’re stuck with Boris Johnson. He has already spent the last two years letting down Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, falsely imprisoned in an Iranian jail, and now that Donald Trump has made her situation even more precarious, it seems he’ll continue as he started.
Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe faces a possible increase in her sentence as a reprisal against the US and its allies over the airstrike that killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani.
And Boris Johnson, facing demands from her husband Richard for a meeting to establish how the government plans to keep her – and other dual-nationality prisoners – safe, is doing exactly nothing.
He remains on holiday in the billionaires’ playground of Mustique while British citizens face the consequences of our so-called ally’s actions.
And a fat lot of good he’s doing us there.
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