On Wednesday, the UK’s Independent newspaper reported that Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson had finally made a public statement on the plight of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the Iranian-British charity worker who was taken into custody by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in April of last year. Johnson and other British government officials had come under fire in recent months for their failure to publicly call for the political prisoner’s release, even as the UK continued to pursue new economic relations with Iran in the atmosphere created by the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
