As an Iranian woman who is a counsellor working with victims of atrocities of the mullahs in Iran and happens to have been a witness to the marriage of one of the 'Barnet Two' men, I am disgusted at the claims that Baroness Nicholson has made about the status of the two prisoners in Iran ('Family denies Iran's terror claims', April 29).

I should make it clear that I have great respect for Tom Spender for his articles in the past regarding the plight of these two men. But Emma Nicholson's horrifying allegations could have come straight from the most violent factions of the sinister mullahs.

Let us ask Baroness Nicholson why she has refused to comment on the state of democracy in Iran? It would be better for her to spend her time in the European Parliament condemning the stoning of women to death, eye gouging, amputating limbs, public hangings, flogging and other barbaric punishments by the mullahs in Iran. Instead she has repeatedly, and in different ways, defended this medieval regime. Of course, the fundamentalist mullahs are delighted on hearing such claims and use them to their benefit.

Laila Jazayeri
Association of Anglo-Iranian Women