UK's Johnson calls Iranian counterpart over detained woman
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Britain's foreign secretary phoned his Iranian counterpart Tuesday to express "his anxiety over the continued suffering" of a British-Iranian woman being held in Iran.
Boris Johnson has been under pressure to publicly correct a statement he made about Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian who is serving a five-year sentence for plotting the "soft toppling" of Iran's government.
Johnson told lawmakers last week that Zaghari-Ratcliffe was "simply teaching people journalism" when she was detained last year. Zaghari-Ratcliffe's family and her employer, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, insist she was merely visiting her family.
