Nazanin Ratcliffe with her husband Richard
A British charity worker has been charged by Iranian authorities after being accused of plotting to topple the country's regime.
Iran confirmed that it had now charged Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, an Iranian-British woman who works for the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
The exact nature of the charges is unclear.
Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who vigorously denies any wrongdoing, was stopped and arrested as she returned from a holiday in Iran on 3 April.
Nazanin Ratcliffe with her daughter
Iran's Revolutionary Guard said the 37-year-old had participated in the "design and implementation of cyber and media projects to cause the soft toppling of the Islamic Republic".
Her daughter Gabriella, who was with her, had her passport confiscated and is staying with grandparents.
Richard Ratcliffe, her husband, has previously described the accusations as "farcical".
"If these are indeed the allegations, this is of course farcical - the idea that there is some malevolent network headed by Nazanin and her two-year-old daughter is nonsense," he said.
"It is a struggle enough for me to take Gabriella shopping."
Iran said two other dual nationals and a foreigner had also been indicted.
These are; Homa Hoodfar, an Iranian-Canadian woman who is a retired university professor, Siamak Namazi, an Iranian-American businessman, and Nizar Zakka, a permanent US resident from Lebanon who has done work for the US government .
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