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Politics, Covid19 and Brexit
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
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<blockquote data-quote="ollie989898" data-source="post: 8138203" data-attributes="member: 54866"><p>You would be pretty foolish or extremely brave to visit a country against the advice of the foreign office. You would be doubly foolish to enter one of these countries if you were working for someone like Reuters as a journo- particularly if you or your company had ever written bad press about the government of the country you intended to visit.</p><p></p><p>The fact remains that people who travel to these countries, do so entirely at the mercy of the government in question. I very much doubt the UK and Iran have any diplomatic links whatsoever and so there is precisely nothing the UK government could ever do to secure their release. In such circumstances, it would be madness to travel there if you ask me.</p><p></p><p>The only way you will ever travel in even relative safety to such countries as a working journalist is if you contact the foreign ministry of the government in question and get their assent beforehand for entering under the guise of journalism. It probably helps if you say nice things about them. I forget their name but one journalist travelled to Iraq back in the day relatively easily, and secured interviews with their officials, providing statements and news from within Iraq where no other journalist, western or otherwise, could set foot. It was all because the journo in question had only ever written purely objective and carefully worded reports about Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi government and their people throughout his career. For example, he would write the 'Iraqi government' whereas lots of other western journos used the term 'regime' routinely as it was a negative piece of terminology and it meant such news companies and their staff were unwanted in the country.</p><p></p><p>Iran is just one such insular and hostile country, there are plenty of other countries which do not care much for western governments and probably care not for the plight of a western journo in the slightest.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ollie989898, post: 8138203, member: 54866"] You would be pretty foolish or extremely brave to visit a country against the advice of the foreign office. You would be doubly foolish to enter one of these countries if you were working for someone like Reuters as a journo- particularly if you or your company had ever written bad press about the government of the country you intended to visit. The fact remains that people who travel to these countries, do so entirely at the mercy of the government in question. I very much doubt the UK and Iran have any diplomatic links whatsoever and so there is precisely nothing the UK government could ever do to secure their release. In such circumstances, it would be madness to travel there if you ask me. The only way you will ever travel in even relative safety to such countries as a working journalist is if you contact the foreign ministry of the government in question and get their assent beforehand for entering under the guise of journalism. It probably helps if you say nice things about them. I forget their name but one journalist travelled to Iraq back in the day relatively easily, and secured interviews with their officials, providing statements and news from within Iraq where no other journalist, western or otherwise, could set foot. It was all because the journo in question had only ever written purely objective and carefully worded reports about Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi government and their people throughout his career. For example, he would write the 'Iraqi government' whereas lots of other western journos used the term 'regime' routinely as it was a negative piece of terminology and it meant such news companies and their staff were unwanted in the country. Iran is just one such insular and hostile country, there are plenty of other countries which do not care much for western governments and probably care not for the plight of a western journo in the slightest. [/QUOTE]
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