Arrest of British-Iranian woman highlights risks to dual-nationals in Iran

Ancient city of Yazd in sunrise lights. Iran

The case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian dual citizen who was arrested in April 2016 while visiting family in Iran and subsequently charged with conspiring to “topple the Iranian regime”, was recently returned to public attention due to a UN petition for her release – a request that was denied by the prosecutor general of Iran in October.