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HANSARD Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI do not think that it is really possible to answer the hon. Gentleman’s question. It is not always possible to gain access to those who are making the decisions relating to…07 Jan 2019HANSARD Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeSanctions are in place in relation to a number of figures in Iran—the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in its entirety, and others—on human rights grounds. That course of action…07 Jan 2019HANSARD Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI am grateful to my hon. Friend. If I was to offer some thoughts on that they would take us the best part of the next half-hour, because again I go back to the point about the…07 Jan 2019HANSARD Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeNo one understands compassion better than the hon. Gentleman, who articulates it so clearly in the House on so many occasions. We still think it best to handle this issue in a…07 Jan 2019HANSARD Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeThe authority structure in Iran is complex, as any study of it will show. I am absolutely certain that the messages that the British Government send, and our work through the…07 Jan 2019HANSARD Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeThe hon. Gentleman asks me a question to which I do not know the answer, but the point he makes is fair. The adherence to international agreements is very important, and they…07 Jan 2019HANSARD Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his question. As I indicated before, it is a complex authority structure. I am absolutely confident that our representations go through to…07 Jan 2019HANSARD Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeTo answer my hon. Friend may I go back to something I said right at the beginning? The very nature of these cases means we are dealing with individuals, some known only to their…07 Jan 2019HANSARD Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeWhether someone is a dual national or mono-national should make no difference: the humanitarian care of those who have been detained under a system through its own processes…07 Jan 2019HANSARD Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeThe hon. Gentleman makes his own point very well. Anyone looking at these situations objectively, regardless of the politics of the situation and the complexities of what is…07 Jan 2019HANSARD Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI am grateful to the hon. Lady and her constituents, and indeed to the constituents of the many hon. Members who have written to their MPs and, through them, to me about the…07 Jan 2019HANSARD Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeOn and off, I have been dealing with consular cases in the middle east region since 2010. I have met a number of families in very difficult situations following a variety of…07 Jan 2019HANSARD Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI thank the hon. Lady for raising her question. The House will appreciate that, in dealing with Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a detained person in Iran, some matters are confidential, so…07 Jan 2019HANSARD Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeAgain, I am grateful to the hon. Lady for what she has said and the way in which she has said it. A number of things that she has raised on behalf of her constituent must remain…07 Jan 2019HANSARD Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeIt is very good to see my hon. Friend in her place. This is not simply a question of keeping the case in the public eye, which, understandably, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband…07 Jan 2019