Farzad Bazoft: tough UK action to save journalist was not forthcoming

Once the Observer journalist fell into the hands of Iraqi security, all Britain’s discreet diplomacy counted for nothingHe had a chequered past, spent time in prison, wasn’t British, couldn’t return home because he would have been persecuted there, and had no regular job. In other words, Farzad Bazoft was a journalist to his core, good looking in that fine-boned Persian way, attractive to women and a man ever eager to find a good story with which to make his mark in Fleet Stree