Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the commitments to address arbitrary detention made in the G7 Foreign and Development Ministers’ Meeting Communiqué of 5 May 2021, what steps he plans to take with his G7 counterparts to secure the release of British dual-nationals arbitrarily detained in Iran, including (a) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, (b) Anoosheh Ashoori and (c) Mehran Raoof.
We are in contact with a range of international partners including the G7 who share our deep concerns about the ongoing detention of arbitrarily detained foreign nationals, including dual British nationals, in Iran. We continue to raise the named individuals' cases at the most senior levels, and discuss them at every opportunity with our Iranian counterparts. Our Ambassador in Tehran regularly raises our dual national cases with the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, most recently on 24 May.