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A British-Australian academic jailed in Tehran has written of feeling “abandoned and forgotten” and claimed that the Iranians tried to recruit her as a spy, in letters smuggled out of her cell.Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a lecturer in Islamic studies at the University of Melbourne, was arrested in September 2018 while at an educational conference and was convicted of espionage.A cache of ten letters, understood to have been written by her in crude Farsi between June and December last year, were secretly sneaked out of Evin jail and passed, via an intermediary who translated them, to The Times. The British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has also been held in Evin prison since her arrest in 2016 over spying allegations that she denies.This morning Jeremy Hunt,…Continue reading here