said that political activists were under greater threat in iran than elsewhere in the world well we're now joined by london based author and journalist yvonne we discuss the story further many thanks for joining us ms ridley now last month iran accused of britain of a role in the assassination of an iranian nuclear scientist so how much is this accusation affected relations between the two countries already tense well relations haven't been good between the two countries for some time now. of course the war of words which began a month ago was actually a consolation of a few of the diplomatic. spat between britain. and iran it has been going on for some time. and how likely is it do you think that iran will actually several all diplomatic ties with the u.k. over this is you. i think in the immediate term it is highly unlikely that the politicians in iran quite angry and outraged at this very