British woman faces alleged coup charge in Iran

An Iranian-British woman held in Iran has been accused of trying to cause a “soft toppling” of the Islamic Republic’s government.

A report by Iran’s state-run news agency, IRNA, is the first official acknowledgement of the detention of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who works for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the news agency.

IRNA said Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested on April 3, at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport, and later transferred to a prison in the Kerman province. Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe joins a growing number of dual Iranian citizens detained in the wake of the country’s nuclear deal with world powers.