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HANSARD US Troop Withdrawal from Northern SyriaNo. The hon. Gentleman, whom I respect very much, needs to be careful. We are not complicit in any action that the US may or may not take. This is a matter for the US. We have…08 Oct 2019HANSARD US Troop Withdrawal from Northern SyriaWith respect to the hon. Gentleman, I do not think I would put it in the terms in which he put it. That is not where we are at the moment. He invites me to speculate; he would…08 Oct 2019HANSARD US Troop Withdrawal from Northern SyriaThere is some sunshine in this terrible situation, and that is the establishment of the constitutional committee and the work of the special envoy, Geir Pedersen. It is important…08 Oct 2019HANSARD US Troop Withdrawal from Northern SyriaI think I can give an assurance that the Government will do everything they can to resolve the situation. The hon. Gentleman would expect me to say that, as a Minister in the…08 Oct 2019HANSARD US Troop Withdrawal from Northern SyriaYes, I can give the hon. Lady that assurance. We are doing everything we realistically can to try to bring some equanimity to this situation. That has been our position from the…08 Oct 2019HANSARD US Troop Withdrawal from Northern SyriaI think it is important to say—this is what we understand to be the case—that the US is not agreeing with Turkey by potentially withdrawing from this piece of territory, so it is…08 Oct 2019HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI am grateful to my right hon. Friend. Foreign Office advice is available on the Foreign Office website, and is updated periodically. On other cases, yes, there are number of…07 Oct 2019HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI am very sorry to hear about the hon. Lady’s constituent. If she sends me details of the case, I would be more than happy to look into it. I think there is very often some…07 Oct 2019HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI am grateful to my right hon. Friend for his kind remarks. The truth of the matter is that Iran does not recognise dual nationals—that is the difference. The case to which he…07 Oct 2019HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI share the hon. Gentleman’s frustration in this regard; I really, really do. But it is a sad fact that the tools in our toolbox are limited. What we can do is continue to make it…07 Oct 2019HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right. Of course, he had this file, as it were, as my predecessor, and I pay tribute to him for the time that he spent on this issue. Again,…07 Oct 2019HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I am not interested in political point scoring. I am interested in getting Nazanin back home. I pay tribute to Richard Ratcliffe, whom I have…07 Oct 2019HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI share the sort of constituency issues to which the hon. Lady has alluded. I am sure that my colleagues in the Home Office will have heard what she has to say, and I will…07 Oct 2019HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI said in my opening remarks that the hon. Lady’s constituents can be proud of her, and they truly can be. Her passion shines through. I really do share her frustration, but I…07 Oct 2019HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI thank the right hon. Lady for her remarks. She dismisses warm words; I have to say that these are more than words. Words are important and it is correct that we get our language…07 Oct 2019HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI am grateful to the right hon. Lady. The information that I have is the information that she has, as we do not have consular access to Nazanin. I read the newspaper reports,…07 Oct 2019HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeGabriella is a British national. We will provide her with every assistance we can to return to the UK if that is the wish of the family.07 Oct 2019HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI absolutely agree with the hon. Gentleman. He has been a real champion of the Baha’i people, and I pay tribute to him for that. He is right; these people should not be…07 Oct 2019HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeYes. He raised this with President Rouhani on 24 September in New York.07 Oct 2019HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeThe hon. Gentleman is correct: there are other dual nationals who are discommoded in a similar way. Of course we talk to our interlocutors in other countries where people are…07 Oct 2019