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<\/p>\nThe husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe had “good” talks with Liz Truss, ahead of her meeting with the Iranian foreign minister to call for the immediate release of detained UK nationals.<\/p>\n
Richard Ratcliffe told the foreign secretary during a 10-minute phone call on Sunday that his wife’s case should be the top priority and he wanted to see the government tackle hostage-taking head on.<\/p>\n
Ms Truss later said she will push for UK nationals trapped in Iran to be released, during a meeting with Hossein Amir-Abdollahian at the UN General Assembly in New York later.<\/p>\n
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She is expected to bring up the cases of Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe<\/strong>, Anoosheh Ashoori and Morad Tahbaz.<\/p>\n Ms Truss said: “I will be asking Iran to ensure the immediate and permanent release of all arbitrarily detained British nationals in Iran, and to begin working with us to mend our fractured relations.”<\/p>\n She had earlier spoken to Mr Ratcliffe while at the airport before leaving for New York, and is said to have shared his concerns about the situation.<\/p>\n Mr Ratcliffe’s wife, a British-Iranian dual national, has been in custody in Iran since 2016 after being accused of plotting to overthrow the government.<\/p>\n Mr Ratcliffe told the PA news agency: “It was nice to hear, considering she is three days into the new job, and is earlier than expected.<\/p>\n “I think it went well overall, she asked me how I wanted to see things – I told her that Nazanin has been used as a bargaining chip of the Iranian government for some time and that I wanted to see Iranian hostage-taking disincentivised.”<\/p>\n Mr Ratcliffe earlier said that he had given Ms Truss the names of 10 people he accuses of being involved with “hostage-taking” in Iran.<\/p>\n He called on the foreign secretary to ensure Iran is made aware this is an “unacceptable practice”.<\/p>\n