00:00Last consular visit was sort of around the middle of May, so we haven't had eyes on since
00:06everything that's happened over there has happened, the 12-day war. And one thing that
00:14really raised concerns for us was that we were told on June the 8th that they were potentially
00:20being transferred to Evin prison in Tehran. Subsequently, in the following weeks, that
00:25was their part of that prison was bombed. And we could get confirmation as to whether or not that
00:31happened or they were still in command. That was, it was upsetting, it was worrying, you know, that
00:39was probably the height of the fear, not that there's no, you're always worried because of the
00:44situation they're in. But just not knowing if they were there, if they're okay, was, yeah, it was horrible.
00:51So as of right now, today, you have no idea how they are?
00:55We don't know. In terms of their welfare, no. Obviously, we've been told by the Iranian MFA
01:03that they are in command, that they're in health and safety conditions and not to worry for their
01:09welfare, which is, you know, we have to take that on face value for what it is. And that's why we're
01:15sort of pushing to say, look, we need to know exactly where they are. We need to make sure that
01:19the consular visit for welfare and safety and health is paramount. And the third thing is we
01:26need to get them home urgently.
01:27And as you said there, the Foreign Office say they're providing consular advice and continue
01:33to raise the case with Iranian authorities. But what more do you think the government should
01:38be doing and what can they do?
01:40I think, you know, this again goes back to the point. We want to work with the Foreign
01:46Office. We're not here to be uncooperative. But also, you know, history shows that with
01:53sort of Nazanin Ratcliffe and Anusha Asori that there is a possibility to get home. They've done
02:00it before. So let's look at what that involved. Use it as a foundation and building block from
02:06there to start to look at what the theory of return is for Mum and Craig.
02:13How confident are you in their return when the UK government states that support is extremely
02:19limited in Iran?
02:23I'm confident that they'll come home. You know, you've got to have that belief. I think
02:28you'd go crazy if you didn't think that they're going to return at some point. And history again
02:33suggests that that at some point, not just for UK nationals, but for people around the
02:38world, that that will happen. You know, it isn't the first time that this is this has
02:45happened, unfortunately. And yeah, we just need to make sure that we are doing everything
02:50we can to get them back. And I think that was really why we wanted to do a public campaign,
02:56because there's quite a lot of talks going on in that part of the world at the moment.
03:00You know, if you sort of look at France with what Macron's doing, and the couple that detained,
03:05that have been detained over there for three years, there's movement in that case. So what
03:09we want to make sure is that if there are talks for a potential peace deal, we want to make
03:14sure that, you know, Lindsay and Craig, my mum and Craig's name are part of those conversations.
03:20And the Foreign Office actually does advise against all travel to Iran, saying that British
03:25nationals are at significant risk of arrest, questioning or detention. That's their words
03:30exactly. It also adds that just by having a British passport or connections to the UK
03:35can be reason enough to be detained. Did that advice not concern them at the time of travelling,
03:41knowing that they would be passing through Iran?
03:45They did. It did. Yeah. I mean, it concerned us all. And obviously, when you hear the news,
03:49it's kind of like, why would you go there? But that's a natural reaction. And we understand
03:54that people are going to be thinking the same thing. You know, it's like, why would you
03:57go to a country you advise not to go to? But it also begs the bigger question as to why
04:02not? Why can't people go to certain parts of the world? Why is that not allowed? You
04:06know, and they did everything that they should have done to go there.
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