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Breaking Baz: Narges Rashidi & Joseph Fiennes Cast In Under-Wraps BBC Drama About Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Six-Year Iranian Prison Ordeal & Husband’s Tireless Campaign To Free Her
Narges Rashadi & Joseph Fiennes will star in under-wraps BBC drama about Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s 6-year Iran prison ordeal & Husband’s Campaign To Free Her.
EXCLUSIVE: Narges Rashadi ( Gangs of London, The Girlfriend Experience) and Joseph Fiennes( The Handmaid’s Tale, Shakespeare in Love) have been secretly portraying Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian charity worker falsely accused of spying and detained in Iran for six years, and her husband Richard Ratcliffe, who campaigned tirelessly for her release, in a TV drama, Deadline can reveal. In 2017, Johnson, as Foreign Secretary, made a misleading statement to lawmakers in the House of Commons that Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been “simply teaching people journalism” in Iran — a comment that her family and employers at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, where she had been a charity project coordinator, both insisted was false. Later, after her release, Zachariah-Ratcliffe told Johnson, by then Prime Minister, that his incorrect words constantly were used against her, that her interrogators tormented her, insisting that her own Foreign Secretary knew she was guilty, according to an essay written for The Guardian by Tulip Saddiq, a member of Parliament in whose NW London constituency the couple live and also was present at the meeting.
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