The market for hope in Tehran is closed for business. A British couple, imprisoned in Iran on charges widely condemned as baseless, have lost their appeal. Their family, now left with no legal recourse, has turned to the Foreign Office.
This is not a diplomatic squabble; it is a capital flight of human liberty. The couple's detention has become a liability on the balance sheet of international relations, with the regime in Tehran holding the paper. The Foreign Office must now calculate the price of a rescue mission, weighing the cost of further entanglement against the debt of a citizen's freedom.
The market watches, and the yield on trust diminishes.
