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The Guardian Article Rating

The left behind: the dual nationals still in jail in Iran

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    84% Very Right

  • Politician Portrayal

    18% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : " Germany, like France and the UK, is a signatory to the Iran nuclear talks, but it has strong business relations with Iran, so Claren can only wait and hope.
50% : For years he divided his time between the UK and Iran, teaching English, meeting with other labour and women's rights activists, and helping them translate materials from and into English.
44% : Many fear their freedom is not being made a precondition of the west agreeing a nuclear deal with Iran in the talks nearing a climax in Vienna.
43% : But his case is complicated by the fact that although he was born in Hammersmith hospital in west London, Iran also views him as American.
42% : Dotted across Europe and America are families of as many as 17 dual nationals still held in jail in Iran, watching nervously to find out whether their loved ones will follow Anoosheh Ashoori and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on a plane to freedom, or be left behind.
42% : Least well known is Mehran Raoof, a trade unionist arrested in Tehran on 16 October 2020.
39% : A friend of his to whom the Guardian spoke said he was unable to place calls to the UK and his lawyer could not speak to reporters from outside Iran.
38% : Taghavi - who had lived in Frankfurt - was arrested in October 2020 on the streets of Tehran by 12 men and has been sentenced to 10 years on charges of "forming a group composed of more than two people with the purpose of disrupting national security" and "propaganda against the regime".
38% : He has no immediate family in Iran.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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