(ANSA) - LONDON, APRIL 26 - Boris Johnson criticized the new sentence - one year with a ban on leaving Iran - imposed today against Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the mother of an Iranian-English family, an employee of the ThomsonReuters Foundation, who had just finished serving a previous controversial sentence for espionage after being arrested during a visit to her country of origin. "I don't think it's absolutely right that Nazinin should pay for another thought," Prime Minister Tory said on the sidelines of a visit to Wrexham.
"Obviously we will have to study the verdict in detail", he added, assuring that his government "will not stop and double its efforts" to get Zaghari-Ratcliffe released and be able to return to his family in the United Kingdom, "working on the matter also with our friends. Americans ".
Interviewed by the BBC, the woman's husband, Richard Ratcliffe, in turn confirmed the new sentence, denouncing it "clearly" as the result of "a bargaining tactic" by the Iranian authorities. claim of an old debt for military supplies that Tehran disputes many years in London, and on that of the possible mending of theinternational agreement on its nuclear program abandoned at the time by the US. (HANDLE).