Is It Too Late for Boris Johnson to Say Sorry?
The foreign secretary expressed remorse weeks after his worst diplomatic gaffe to date.
Sorry seems to be the hardest word—especially if your name is Boris Johnson.
On Monday, the British foreign secretary made a second attempt at apologizing for comments he made about Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a dual British-Iranian national currently serving a five-year sentence as a political prisoner in Tehran. Johnson had claimed Zaghari-Ratcliffe was “simply teaching journalism” when she was arrested in 2016 for allegedly plotting to “topple” the Iranian regime. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a charity worker with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, had insisted along with her employer that she
