stream: Not only has there been no progress in high-profile consular cases such as that of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, arrested for spying in 2016, there has also been a steady stream of other British-Iranian dual nationals picked up on spurious grounds in recent weeks, according to The Guardian. Kameel Ahmady, an Iranian-British social anthropologist was arrested on 11 August and had no contact with his family except three phone calls. From the British perspective, well articulated by the former Middle East minister Alistair Burt, those in the UK government who would have liked to build a new relationship with Iran in the wake of the 2015 nuclear deal feel very badly let down by Tehran. On 27 August, another Iranian-British citizen Anousheh Ashouri, a businessman who has been imprisoned since 2017, had been sentenced to 12 years in prison allegedly for spying for Israel's Mossad intelligence agency and receiving 33,000 29,000 in illicit funds. The latest arrest of three Australians, two with British passports, came around this time, but marks a new low point since they had no Iranian nationality. On 18 August, Iran's appeals court upheld a 10-year prison sentence against British Council employee Aras Amiri for forming and organising a network for the purpose of overthrowing the Islamic Republic.
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