Iranian diplomat visits UK amid growing pressure over jailed activist

The Iranian negotiator's meetings were expected to be overshadowed by UK demands for the release of British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, whose husband is on a hunger strike outside the UK Foreign Office headquarters in London.
Richard Ratcliffe, husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian held in Iran since 2016.
Richard Ratcliffe, husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian held in Iran since 2016, sits outside the Foreign Office with his daughter Gabriella, in London on Nov. 5, 2021, two weeks after beginning a hunger strike to denounce the British government for "also letting us down" and failing to secure her release. - TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images
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Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Ali Bagheri Kani, was in London to meet with British officials ahead of a new round of talks on the revival of the Iran nuclear deal slated for Nov. 29 in Vienna.

The visit came as part of a renewed diplomatic push by the Islamic Republic aimed at a restored accord that could ideally see US sanctions lifted and reinject life into Iran's choking economy.

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