U.K. Foreign Secretary Regrets Remarks on Briton Imprisoned in Iran<br />Mr. Johnson’s words were quickly seized upon by Iran-state television and, four days later, by the Iranian authorities, who cited them in a court hearing as proof<br />that she had engaged in "propaganda against the regime." Mr. Johnson at first equivocated, saying his remarks could have been clearer and that there was no doubt that Ms. Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been on vacation.<br />13, 2017<br />LONDON — Boris Johnson, Britain’s foreign secretary, apologized on Monday for misleading remarks about a British-Iranian woman imprisoned in Iran<br />that her family said could be used to justify, and even prolong, her sentence for sedition.<br />that The house should bear in mind that Iran’s regime,<br />and no one else, has chosen to separate this mother from her infant daughter for reasons even they find it difficult to explain or describe.<br />Mr. Ratcliffe told the BBC this month that he hoped to accompany the foreign secretary to Iran so he could see his wife for the first time in 19 months,<br />but that he was unsure if his request would be accepted.<br />Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested in Tehran last year<br />and sentenced to five years in prison for what her family and other supporters said were fabricated allegations of plotting to overthrow the Iranian establishment.<br />" he said. that I acknowledge that the words that I used were open to being misinterpreted<br />and I apologize to Mrs. Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her family if I have inadvertently caused them any further anguish,
