Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, and they did not let his wife leave the country. I think it's of its time. Quiet bilateral diplomacy hasn't worked in many cases, and clearly standing up and saying that this is just a normal.... Of course there are differences between different countries, but it's a norm o

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm out of my depth in this.

Foreign Affairs committee  It's a fair question that all public figures have to think through. I think that in a context in which I just talked about, Magnitsky sanctions, you're probably quite safe in terms of where the resentment is going to come. He took a lot of political flack domestically. My sense

Foreign Affairs committee  Across the piece of all the different families, we take different views. I'm definitely at the loud and clear end of things. There are a couple of things I perhaps wouldn't do, but broadly I think the truth is on our side and that we should be straightforward. There are some fa

Foreign Affairs committee  —and they're being told that by the Iranian authorities, and sometimes they're being told that by their own foreign service, saying that this is a delicate issue and let's just go—

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, we're all muddling our way through.

Foreign Affairs committee  In terms of those who were part of this UN submission—that's active families co-operating—there are about 15. Not all of them were on the record there. There are some who are named authors, and some who are cases, and then there are some who were involved but wouldn't want to h

Foreign Affairs committee  The majority would be from the States, from the U.K., a couple from Canada, and from Europe—those would be from Austria, Sweden and the Netherlands—and then a couple of others.

Foreign Affairs committee  I think that's a really important thing to happen. There is an element of divide and rule, if I'm honest, in the way Iran has played it through bilateral deals.

Foreign Affairs committee  Divide and rule, I mean in the way Iran has played it through individual bilateral deals, in secret.

Foreign Affairs committee  There is a sensitivity to this. Let us say you're the British foreign office. You have some cases like us who want to be public and you have some cases that want to be private, and where you position yourself is tricky. I think, though, that those of us who are public are certain

Foreign Affairs committee  Well, I would have thought that something like the Magnitsky sanctions, coordinated, with the same sanctions—

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes.

Foreign Affairs committee  For sure I think that would be very helpful. I think also that the UN, as a vehicle for the universal periodic review process, which is where Iran is up in front of the UN and has to justify its human rights record, that can be coordinated, with different countries raising the sa

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes is the short answer. The Raoul Wallenberg Centre has produced a report with a list of names. I think some of those names are directly connected to Nazanin's case and the cases of others. For some of the names, I can't say hand on heart that they're directly connected to Nazan