What can the UK & US do to secure the release of its citizens held prisoner in Iran? – BBC Newsnight

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The UK and Iran are in discussions over a £400m debt that the UK owes, foreign office minister James Cleverly has said – but the talks are not linked to the detention of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.

Alem Maqbool reports and Emily Maitlis is joined by Elika Ashoori, whose British-Iranian father Anoosheh Ashoori was arrested in Tehran in 2017.

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