DUBAI—Iran has released British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, removing her ankle tag after a five-year prison sentence, but she has been summoned again to court on another charge, her lawyer and a British lawmaker said on Sunday. She was jailed for plotting to overthrow the clerical establishment. “She was pardoned by Iran’s supreme leader last year, but spent the last year of her term under house arrest with electronic shackles tied to her feet. Now they’re cast off,” Kermani told an Iranian website. “She has been freed.” Iran’s judiciary was not immediately available to comment about the release. British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab welcomed her release but said Iran’s continued treatment of her remained “intolerable”. British lawmaker Tulip Siddiq said she had spoken to Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s family and that they told her she had had her ankle tag removed, but has been summoned again to court. “I have been in touch …
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