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00:00If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.
00:03If you're happy and you know it, and you really want to show it.
00:07If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.
00:09Yay, thank you.
00:10Should we do it again?
00:12Yeah.
00:12If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.
00:15If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.
00:19They're definitely watching, the Iranians.
00:21Yes, they'll be filming us.
00:26So I often want a piece of birthday cake.
00:27Best not.
00:30As you say, as long as they know we're here, that's all that matters.
00:50Although it was forbidden, and although I fear punishment,
00:54I need to write down what is happening to me and how I feel.
01:00Today was yet another interrogation lasting hours.
01:04Same question over and over.
01:07What is your machine?
01:10They terrorize and intimidate me.
01:13They know my weakness is my family, my child, my husband.
01:16And they become so weak and my husband.
01:28I don't feel like you.
01:31You're ready.
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02:44My name is Arana. I'm a car.
02:46I'll just let you know how to get a car.
02:48I'm not going to get a car.
02:50My name is Arana.
02:52I'm a happy man.
02:54My name is Arana, I'm a car.
02:56I'm a car.
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04:28There's no server here.
04:38¡No!
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04:42Because it isn't going to deliver, it's a little dropping ship.
04:52That is our spot.
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15:21to be getting on with yeah um i'm doing my best patrick i'm getting some things done i don't
15:31think i've been totally richard i'm not suggesting anything other than pay leave of absence
15:37so go get nazineen home safely then come back and do your job
15:51take a look at this photograph
16:07this picture was taken from my phone
16:13this private who are these people who do you think they are
16:19you know who they are they're they're they're my family it's it's it's my husband's brother
16:28his new wife and an elephant do i need to tell you which is which
16:31i don't know
16:48i'm telling the truth
17:01i'm telling you the truth
17:09my family know where i am
17:11do my family know where i am you have been trying to lie
17:19the names you've just spoken i don't know i am telling you the truth i was raised to tell the
17:28the truth
17:36But...
17:38How do you remember you?
17:39I'm a model.
17:42A model?
17:44I'm a god.
18:06Stop it.
18:12This will not end until you cooperate.
18:15We are very patient.
18:17I want to see my daughter.
18:19I want to speak to my husband, my family.
18:21Why are you doing this to me?
18:23Why? Why? Why? Why?
18:29Why?
18:36Why?
18:58My darling little child.
19:00My body is aching for you.
19:07It knows you're gone and I miss you.
19:14Where have you been all this time?
19:17What have you been doing?
19:20What have you been thinking each day when I'm not there?
19:36I need to meet you.
19:37Okay.
19:45Hissu! Hissu!
19:47Richard!
19:48Richard!
19:49Richard!
19:59You are my mother with me.
20:01I will go back.
20:06They're saying that they're making a good job.
20:10It's hard to say that the boss has something to you.
20:14You will find the boss that you have to leave.
20:18You can't even imagine that.
20:21I'll be able to show you the boss.
20:24I'll show you this place and I'll show you Iran.
20:28I saw you there.
20:31I don't know what to do.
20:40Do you want to take care of yourself?
20:46I don't know.
21:01Oh, my God.
21:17Let me kiss you. Let me kiss you.
21:21Oh, what is this?
21:23Madam.
21:24Madam, Madam, I'll take care of you.
21:27Madam, I'll take care of you.
21:30Madam, Otoak, tooorbene and meaningful food.
21:33I'll try and read it.
21:35He's not till karma.
21:38Perhaps, your child hasvé.
21:40Any communion in the lounge?
21:43I'd send you to the restroom.
21:46I wanna tell you everything you've been doing.
21:50Everything.
21:53Oh, god, god.
21:55Tawalud, Tawalud, Tawaludet, Mubarak
22:01Mubarak, Mubarak, Tawaludet, Mubarak
22:06Bia, Shema, Rufut, Kone, Taa, Sat, Saa, Zan, Dhe, Bashi
22:12Bia, Shema, Rufut, Kone, Taa, Sat, Saa, Zan, Dhe, Bashi
22:25Mubarak, Tawalud, Tawali
22:27Iki Iki
22:28Uki
22:29Uki
22:33Maat, Sama, Iki
22:35Maat, Siua
22:37Maat,ناendu
22:38Aw Leuten
22:45Maat, shall this
22:46Really?
22:47Simón
22:47Fe-
22:49Jin woman
22:51Mubarak,
22:52I would like to talk to you about your husband.
22:58Tell him about the government of Britannia.
23:02He will accept the truth.
23:05If he does this work, he will be free from you.
23:13What is the truth?
23:16Why do you say Richard?
23:22Mr. Radcliffe, are you still there?
23:27Yes, yes I am.
23:29As far as I've been able to establish, there is no such deal.
23:33Nothing.
23:35Well, I'm just repeating what her brother in Iran was told.
23:40I mean, if there's no such deal, then why would they say there is?
23:44The Iranians say many things.
23:46There is no deal, no agreement to be made.
23:49We have no idea why her interrogators would claim that there is.
23:54Right, thank you.
23:56Who do you think is telling the truth?
24:01The Iranians saying there is an agreement to be made, or the Foreign Office saying there isn't?
24:19I want to believe the Iranians, because that means there is a reason Nazanin is being held.
24:28But I also want to believe in the Foreign Office, and that maybe there is a reason they can't say anything.
24:37That's right.
24:38We don't know.
24:40I desperately want to trust them.
24:43Us.
24:44The British.
24:46They will be doing something.
24:50They will be doing something.
24:51They will be doing something.
24:52They will be doing something.
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25:19They will be doing something.
25:20They will be doing something.
25:21They will be doing something.
25:22They will be doing something.
25:23Please tell me that if the British government agree with it, the rule won't be left.
25:48Not great to Adam.
25:49Not great timing for us to be fair.
25:51Jack. All anyone's interested in is Brexit.
25:58Thank you for coming.
26:01Today marks the hundredth day of Nazanin's abduction.
26:06For a hundred days, a mother, a British citizen, has been held inside an Iranian prison, willfully separated from her child.
26:14The intelligence services are admitting that they are detaining a mother and baby,
26:19not because of any suspicious activity in Iran, but as collateral for an unknown political deal.
26:25And they have asked me to make this unknown deal known to you, the media.
26:30Now, backed by over 780,000 voices, this petition will be delivered to number 10.
26:36I'm asking the Prime Minister, David Cameron, and his Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond,
26:42to condemn Iran's actions in Parliament and to ask the question,
26:47what is this deal Iran is seeking?
30:51Thank you for your poem.
30:53I pray it will give me the strength I will need in the years to come.
31:03Yeah.
31:18I have made a statement.
31:20I have made a statement.
31:22I have made a statement.
31:24Please leave me.
31:28I will read it.
31:34I will read it.
32:04I will read it.
32:06I will read it.
32:20I will read it.
32:22I will read it.
32:34publisher
32:40her husband
32:42will move you back?
32:44My wife is doing myself.
32:46I will reject them.
32:48Because my wife is taking
32:50the entire dead.
32:53You may tell you when that husband
32:54will memorize it and speaks dull on the back of his life.
32:57I will tell you all.
33:00I already know all this thing.
33:02We only want something that is related to us.
33:30Hello?
33:33Richard, my love.
33:36Nazelyne, darling.
33:37How are you? Where are you?
33:40Richard, they say I'm guilty.
33:47Of what?
33:48I've been sentenced to five years of prison.
33:52Guilty of what?
33:54Five years.
33:56That is the sentence, yes, but what is it they say you are convicted of?
34:00In five years my baby will be seven.
34:03No, no, that's an end.
34:04No, no, listen to me.
34:06We will get through this and I promise, I promise you, I'll devote every hour to bringing you home.
34:11Five years apart.
34:12We will bring you home.
34:16I promise.
34:20Naz.
34:21No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
34:40You are a man of a faith.
34:43You are a man of a faith.
34:45Yes.
34:46You are a man of a faith.
34:53You are an elder.
34:54You're not gonna give me a favor.
35:01You're not gonna give me a favor.
35:09You're not gonna give me a favor.
35:15I'm gonna give you a favor.
35:21What do you want me to show you?
35:23What do you want me to do?
35:51Hello?
35:55Is this Richard Radcliffe?
35:57Husband to Nazanin Zaghari?
36:00Who is this?
36:02I can't say. Not yet.
36:05Is this Richard Radcliffe?
36:07It is.
36:08Richard, do you have a pen and paper?
36:12You are going to want to write this down.
36:18Yes, go on.
36:19Regarding your claim of an outstanding deal between the Iranian and British governments, you are not wrong.
36:25The company you should investigate is called IMS, International Military Services Limited.
36:30They are fully owned by the British Ministry of Defence.
36:34They owe money and are currently being dragged through the British courts by MOD Iran no less.
36:39If this is all true, it would help to know who you are.
36:42It's all true, my friend. Dig deep. The information is there.
36:46Good luck.
36:492002 and we have something interesting.
36:59IMS make a payment of 400 million pounds to a UK court as a security bond.
37:04Why would they do that?
37:19A dispute? It has to be some kind of debt, doesn't it?
37:21There is a debt. Look.
37:22An award of damages plus interest was made against the company in connection with a contractual dispute with the government of Iran.
37:29There's a reduction in the debt from 500 to 400 million in 2006, but after that, there's no record of either a 400 million pound payment or cancellation of the debt.
37:40A statement for the subsequent years shows that the dispute is ongoing.
37:46The latest negotiation is taking place in 2016.
37:50IMS did indeed pay a sizeable amount of money to the UK courts as security for a debt owed to Iran, the claimant being the Iranian Ministry of Defence.
38:00Wow.
38:14It all dates back to the 1970s, would you believe, over 40 years ago.
38:24The argument is still very much alive. In fact, closed-door negotiations between the UK and Iranian governments last took place in March and May of this year, 2016.
38:37The outcome of these negotiations was what, Penny?
38:40Well, as far as I can see, no agreement was reached.
38:44We were told they were holding on to her in May.
38:47Coincidence, or were the Iranians trying to force an agreement?
38:50Penny, can you talk us through everything you found, please, beginning in the 1970s?
38:55It's 1971, and the oil-rich Shah of Iran signs a £650 million contract with the British government for weaponry and military vehicles, including tanks.
39:14The contract is made with the commercial arm of the MOD, International Military Services, a limited company, IMS.
39:23Fast-forward to 1978, 1979, and we have the Iranian Revolution.
39:31Yeah, I remember it. I remember it being on the news.
39:38The Shah is overthrown, and he flees the country.
39:43At this point, the Shah has already paid £100 million to IMS for tanks which, bar the odd few, have yet to be delivered and now will never be delivered.
39:58So Iran wants his money back? With interest. And why not?
40:03They're demanding their money back.
40:04This is when?
40:05Early 1980s. It becomes a legal dispute early 1990s.
40:10Iran takes IMS to the European Court of Arbitration in the Netherlands, and they win.
40:15IMS appeals on spurious grounds. The case goes to the Dutch Supreme Court, which rules in favour of Iran, and the arbitration becomes enforceable.
40:25So where's the problem, besides us paying the silly buggers?
40:28Well, initially the Iran-Iraq war.
40:30The Saddam Hussein was our man in the Middle East. Iraq actually received some of the tanks Iran had paid for.
40:44Oh dear God.
40:45The war lasts between 1980 and 1988. Legal arguments begin early 90s all the way through to the noughties. Then EU sanctions against Iran kick in around about 2008.
40:58But everything changed in January this year, 2016.
41:03The nuclear deal. JCPOA?
41:07Yes.
41:08What's that?
41:09Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
41:12Between Iran, the US, and the EU.
41:16Very good, Jeff.
41:18Common knowledge.
41:20The Plan of Action allowed EU sanctions to be lifted. That is, most sanctions.
41:25Meaning that we, the UK, could pay 400 million to the Iranian Ministry of Health, for instance.
41:31But they can't pay, won't pay, the now 400 million to the Iranian Ministry of Defence.
41:38Even though it's their money. Even though we'd just be giving it back.
41:42Exactly. So it's not a payment, it's a refund.
41:45What we have to do, is show that this debt is the reason Nazanim was taken.
41:51Wow.
41:52That's true, Greg.
41:53Oh.
41:54That's true, Greg.
41:56Mm-hmm.
41:57Hello?
42:06Oh.
42:07Amen.
42:09Oh, my God.
42:14Mama?
42:15You're right, honey.
42:17Honey?
42:18.
42:27.
42:30.
42:30.
42:35.
42:36.
42:37.
42:40.
42:42.
42:47I need an aunt to enjoy.
42:49Mama!
42:50What?
43:17I need an aunt.
43:47I need an aunt.
43:49I need a aunt.
43:50I need a aunt.
43:51Look at her.
43:52Come on.
43:53I can get her.
43:54I need her.
43:55Come on.
43:56Come on.
43:57She's ready.
43:58I need you to take a nap.
44:01But you don't do this.
44:03She'll never kill her.
44:04She's been five years old.
44:06She will be seven years old.
44:08No.
44:10She's never kill her.
44:12Why are you drinking an arse?
44:14Come on.
44:22Let's try to get a relationship with you.
44:25Don't let you do it.
44:28Let's talk about it.
44:44Richard, it's me.
44:54My darling, can you hear me? I'm here.
44:58Can you hear me?
44:59I can't do this.
45:02What do you mean?
45:03I want you to care for Gabriela, like I know you will.
45:07Esna, what are you saying?
45:09It would be easier for you to forget me.
45:12You must move on with your lives without me.
45:14No, that's it. No, I do not accept that.
45:20I need you. Gabriela needs you.
45:22We love you. That isn't going to change.
45:25Ever.
45:27What?
45:28That's it.
45:32Um, hello?
45:33I, uh, I'm the man, uh, looking after your, uh, wife.
45:43I hope you, uh, will collect her soon.
45:53I'm the man.
45:54I'm the man.
45:59I'm the man.
45:59I'm the man, uh, I'm the man.
46:01What do you think about your husband? What kind of child?
46:19If you think about it, what's going on?
46:24It's not going to be.
46:26Do you have an important part?
46:31I want to say it out loud.
46:35I want the public to know that my wife is being held in solitary confinement in an Iranian
46:42prison for the non-payment of a 40-year-old tank debt.
46:48I feel the Foreign Office know that too, but they won't admit it.
46:56So, how best do we do that?
47:00I know a journalist at the Sunday Times I might help.
47:03Is he good? Do we know him?
47:05No, you wouldn't know him, but he's well thought of.
47:07Yeah, Sunday Times is good.
47:08I'm in a splash of the Times. May well lead to more publicity.
47:11We could try for the Today programme. It is a political story.
47:14I think we should inform the Foreign Office of our intentions.
47:18I'll write to Tobias Elwood, tell him we have all the details of the tank debt and request a meeting.
47:22All right?
47:37My dear darling husband.
47:39I've loved you so much.
47:46Forgive me.
47:48I cannot be apart from you.
47:51I cannot be apart from Gisu.
47:55And I cannot bear for you to be apart from your daughter whom you love so dearly.
48:02I've released you, my love.
48:32I cannot be apart from you.
48:34You are a journalist.
48:35He doesn't buy it.
48:36Why are you talking about him?
48:38He doesn't buy it?
48:39You'll have to ask me.
48:40He'll ask me.
48:41He'll ask you.
48:42He'll ask you.
48:43He'll ask me.
48:44He'll ask me.
48:45He'll ask you.
48:46I will ask you.
48:47My dear.
48:49My dear.
48:50My dear.
48:51My dear.
48:53I release you, my love.
49:09She must have written the note when she was refusing food.
49:17Is that all?
49:18No, I'm not.
49:19But now things have changed.
49:24They brought her food when we were there.
49:27She is a prize to them.
49:29She has value.
49:32She needs to know that she has not forgotten.
49:36She needs to know that we are here.
49:37I am here.
49:39Always.
49:41Do you hear me, Mohammed?
49:42Always.
49:43And I always will be.
49:44Always.
49:47She needs to know I will keep.
49:49I promise.
49:55The husband of a woman who is in jail in Iran has accused the Foreign Office of dragging its feet on seeking her release.
50:01Mrs. Zaghari Ratcliffe's husband, Richard Ratcliffe, says the Foreign Office has not done all it could do.
50:07And he thinks he knows why.
50:08She says she is being used as a bargaining chip.
50:10And Iran says that Britain owes it 400 million pounds as part of an arms deal dating back 40 years or so.
50:17The Foreign Office won't tell us anything about that particular situation.
50:21You've seen it?
50:27Yeah, I've seen it.
50:28What the fuck has happened?
50:29Were we not promised a splash?
50:31With only one source, it's you claiming one thing and the Foreign Office saying another.
50:36And I think we may well have been briefed against.
50:40Meaning what?
50:41Meaning that one or two people in the media will have been told, quite sympathetically, that Richard Ratcliffe is understandably emotional and going through a very difficult and traumatic time.
50:55So what now?
51:00You answer your phone, we'll go for a pint.
51:03It's Penny.
51:06Penny, yes, I've seen it.
51:07Forget that, that's old news.
51:09We've been offered a meeting with Tobias Elwood.
51:12When?
51:12Day after tomorrow.
51:14It's unheard of.
51:17Is he rattled, do you think?
51:19Well, we certainly have his attention.
51:51Your emotional response is, of course, natural and understandable.
51:57Perhaps some form of therapy might help.
52:04Thank you for your concern.
52:07And perhaps if I clarified the position in relation to the tanks.
52:10Please.
52:11The tanks were due to be sold to the Iranians in the 1970s.
52:14The British government took the money but did not supply the tanks.
52:18Instead, those tanks went to Iraq.
52:21All the money received from Iran then sat in an account.
52:25However, due to the sanctions now in place, it's not possible to deliver this money to Iran.
52:29There's no way around this?
52:30By using the Amanis, for example?
52:32No.
52:33The Iranians are aware of this.
52:35So what did the Revolutionary Guard mean when they said, tell your government to do a deal?
52:41Well, they are part of a hard-line government who are encouraging you to highlight quite falsely that the West does not play fair.
52:48Yeah. Pure propaganda.
52:50Nazanin being taken and the tank deal are very much two separate issues.
52:55Then why have they taken her, if not for leverage?
53:01Paranoia.
53:02You would agree there are thousands of Iranians in exactly the same position as Nazanin.
53:07Anyone who appears suspicious will be on their radar.
53:09Well, this is a mother and baby.
53:11The only thing that could identify Nazanin as being suspicious is her dual nationality.
53:18Her passport is why she was taken, and her passport gives them leverage.
53:21It's not us or our campaign that has politicized her kidnapping.
53:27You are emotional, and under enormous pressure of that, I am certain.
53:31And pressure leads to misunderstandings.
53:36Make no mistake.
53:38The Iranians watch for every word spoken, be it Prime Minister's questions in the press or the Today program.
53:45Your approach and your campaign are, to put it bluntly, damaging.
53:51You have people around you who are saying, well done, but they are wrong.
53:56We must be seen by the Iranians, Richard, to be as one.
54:01You could tweet that you've just met with Tobias Elwood, for example.
54:05You mean, well, of course you do, but perhaps a more useful outlet for both you and Nazanin would be to keep a diary.
54:21See you in my skin.
54:24Like the main reason.
54:25Shire-
54:32Shire-
54:35I'm going to give you my heart
54:41If I have you
54:52I'm going to talk to you with me.
54:54Can you do it with me?
55:05When is my father?
55:10I know, Serena.
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