Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe docudrama

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Is anyone watching this?

Not really cosy Sunday evening viewing, but very interesting.

Watching. Wish it was possible to go to Iran.

Watching. It’s upsettting but feel it’s both interesting and something I should watch.
So many humans are just fucking power crazy awful beings.

What channel please?

Yes, I’m watching it too.
It’s scary.

Yes!

I came looking to see if there was a thread earlier but couldn't find one.

Shocking, and terrifying. Poor poor family.

BBC1

I went as a very, very small child - mid 70s - I was no more than 5. DDad was working in Turkey for a few weeks, we (DM and I) were with him. We went to Tehran for a couple of days. There would have been a deal. It was pre Revolution. I mostly remember amazing pistacio ice cream!

Are you talking about this drama, or is there also a documentary.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002hzfm/prisoner-951

Confused.

Am asking as I am taping this, but now wondering if I missed a documentary.

PS in case anyone later decides the BBC have been economical with the truth, they aren't claiming this is a "documentary"!

It is a dramatisation of real events.

Yes, this is what I mean.
I acknowledge that the bbc have not called it a documentary.

That was a hard watch! Harrowing beyond words.

@IwantToRetire there is a documentary too I believe which gives further context behind the story. But not sure when it’s on. It’ll be on iplayer though.

It is. I've been to Iran. I haven't been for years, but I think it's still possible.

Just looked. FO advised against all travel to Iran.

Really good drama, felt so sorry for Nazanin and her family, terrifying experience.

There are 4 episodes to this. Only watched the first one so far. Just confirmed my suspicions that Iran is not a safe country.

I haven't watched yet, but was this made clear? I remember at the time the family were very quick to blame the government, despite her travelling against advice.

We watched most of it (until she got taken from Tehran) but then (adult) DS came in and wanted to do something else.
So horrific what happened to her - beyond words.

I don't know what the advice was at the time. I've travelled to Iran (years ago, don't know what FO advice was at the time) without incident.

I also think the days of government 'rescuing' its citizens abroad belong in the past. People have access to information and can make informed risk taking for themselves. Beyond basic consulate assistance, frankly I think, you're on your own. I think it's a hangover from colonial days when people travelled on official business and very few people travelled for pleasure or set up lives abroad. Obviously if you are sent abroad by government or a company they have a duty of care to you and should do absolutely everything possible to get you back. With regard natural disasters, yes provide assistance to get your citizens out (paid for by insurance or citizen billed) but I see this more as emergency help for the country experiencing the disaster but getting people out from under their feet.

None of this is to let Iran off the hook, its a hideous regime (and everyone know this, lovelest people though) and its awful what they did to NZR and her poor family.

Just googled it the FO first advised against travelling to Iran in 2019 Nazarin was taken hostage by the Iranian government in 2016.
Secondly this was hardly an ill advised holiday jolly looking for sun and sand she was an Iranian citizen visiting her parents and family who lived in Iran with a her daughter.
The whole thing was a total outrage, Nazarin was just being used as a pawn, it was all about a debt owed by the UK government to the Iranian government for some tanks paid many years prior to this for but never delivered.
It’s an excellent drama, in the midst of numerous and tedious reality programmes etc well done BBC for broadcasting this, great acting as well.

I have it recorded I haven’t watched it yet but was this the case where Boris Johnson got involved and made things worse for her or sm I thinking of something completely different

Yes - this is the Bumbling Boris case.

I'm so angry at the British government after tonight's episode! Such a we don't give a shit and shut up attitude.

I hope her family in Iran are safe.
i remember the campaign for her freedom
well. I hope her, her husband and her daughter are living their best lives.
(Not much thanks to the U.K. government though.)

I’ve recorded this to watch later this week. I do wonder how her family in Iran are doing. I thought it was interesting on Laura Kussenberg on Sunday that her husband didn’t criticise the regimes directly and I wondered if a risk of reprisals was a part of that?

Richard was also clear that Jeremy Hunt had been really supportive (he was a panellist) but that the FO civil servants had advised him (the Foreign Sec) against meeting Richard and described him as a trouble maker! I have to say I’m pretty embarrassed to be a civil servant at hearing that (I’m not at the FO). What on earth could they have been thinking? His wife had been taken hostage - being a troublemaker is sort of what’s expected?

Why have two posters said they have recorded the programme to watch later? Surely you just stream on demand from iplayer? What do you record it with - VHS??