UK Dismisses Iran Prison Swap Offer As 'Vile'
Jeremy Hunt, British foreign secretary, meeting with Gabriella Ratcliff, Nazanin Zaghari's daughter in Tehran British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt on Thursday dismissed the suggestion of a prisoner swap for a British-Iranian mother being held in Tehran as a "vile" diplomatic ploy, while her husband told AFP the idea was "almost impossible". In New York, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday suggested a swap between Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who is in jail in Tehran for alleged sedition, and Negar Ghodskani, an Iranian woman held in Australia on a U.S. extradition warrant. Hunt said there was a "huge difference" between the two women. "The woman in jail in Australia is facing due process, a proper legal procedure, and she is alleged to have committed a very serious crime," he told reporters in London. "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is innocent -- she has done nothing wrong." He added: "What is u...