Originally Posted by Chris

Except this debt wasn’t owed to an individual, but to the State of Iran, and while we may not initially have recognised the revolutionaries as the legitimate government of Iran, it has been many years since we did. It might have seemed to have been a principled moral stand to keep the money and the tanks out of the hands of the mad mullahs, but at the same time we ought to have been more alive to the risks they posed. The clue’s in the name.

While I admit it might be in poor taste to even ask this, I do wonder what travel advice for British citizens was in place in 2016 and whether the lady in question was known to be at greater risk being a dual national. Obviously she’s never now going to go back to Iran. I wonder whether she really ought to have gone back even in 2016.