The release of Gershkovich and his fellow hostage highlights the way some authoritarian regimes have cynically used such people as pawns in geopolitical manoeuvres.
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National archive documents raise questions about how definitive British efforts to prevent arms transfers to Iran really were after the revolution that toppled the Shah.
The British-Iranian national is returning to the UK after being held in Iran since 2016.
International sanctions make it almost impossible for the UK to repay the decades-old debt.
The husband of detained Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is in the 18th day of his hunger strike outside the Foreign Office in London.
As foreign secretary, Boris Johnson was a liability for the May government.
Theresa May’s need to balance Brexiteers and Remainers in her cabinet means that the foreign secretary can get away with an alarming level of incompetence.
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