Posted on 02/16/2025 2:49:48 PM PST by RandFan
The UK government must act "more promptly" to help a British couple currently being held in Iran than it did to secure the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, her husband Richard Ratcliffe has said.
Craig and Lindsay Foreman were arrested in January, but news of their detention, on unspecified security charges, only emerged earlier this week.
The couple, both aged 52, had been on a motorbike trip across the world and had only planned to be in Iran for five days.
Mr Ratcliffe, whose wife was arrested in Iran in 2016 and not released until six years later, said the dangers of travelling to the country would be "a lot clearer" if Foreign Office travel advice reflected "the risks of hostage-taking" there.
The UK Foreign Office advises against all travel to Iran, saying British and British-Iranian dual nationals are at "significant risk of arrest, questioning or detention".
Having a British passport or connections to the UK "can be reason enough for the Iranian authorities to detain you", it adds.
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I mean please......
The U.K. foreign office even explicitly tells you not to bother.
These people are too old to be so stupid. Did anyone else think there would be any other outcome to this?
*crickets*
With the foreign office advice how did they even enter the wretched place?
I have little sympathy.
Said on the news they wanted to avoid the fighting in Syria or something. Wrong choice.
I would think they would need to have gotten a visa from Iran.
They might have travelled past a ‘sensitive’ place.
They ignored Foreign Office advice not to travel there because of their habit of engaging in ‘hostage diplomacy’.
Leave them. Don’t give the Iranians any concessions to release them.
And so another saga begins
It’s truly mind boggling.
One would think so but they aren't the first to try this type of trip and have things go badly. If they are still alive is about the only positive here. Others have lost their lives doing this. This couple didn't learn any lesson from those abbreviated journeys.
Send lawyers, guns and money!
I wonder how many have made it without trouble that we’d never hear about.
Sandbaggers or Ultimate Force types sent in.
Good Brit TV shows.
This is not an international incident. Iranians doing what Iranians do. Idiots doing what idiots do.
Stupid has consequences. Enjoy your stay.
SOME PEOPLE NEED HAND HOLDING 24/7/365 for 95 years.
WHAT EVER MADE THEM THINK IRAN WAS A VACATION SPOT???
NEVER SAW WHEEL OF FORTUNE GIVE AWAY A VACATION IN IRAN !!!!!
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