24 The authenticity of the note of the exchange of messages between TLU and another person (“A”) has not been called into question. I am satisfied that it provides a contemporaneous account of what occurred in Iran, when their son returned, and in 2014. I am satisfied that TLT, TLU and TLV were entitled to believe, and did and do believe, what they were told by A. These exchanges, and TLT's own account of his family history, which has also not been challenged, sets the inadvertent disclosure of confidential details about TLT and his family in a context which was for them alarming. The details published by the Home Office included TLT's full name, his nationality and age, the fact that he had claimed asylum and that steps had been taken to secure the voluntary return to him and his family to Iran. 25 In March 2014 A reported to TLU that a member of her family had been detained and questioned about "you", in other words TLT and his family, and that "they", in other words the Iranian authorities, claim to have documents that "you" have sought asylum. TLT and TLU were asked by another relative to supply copies of their identity documents and passports and they did so, whereupon the family member was released. I cannot, of course, determine whether or not what A said was accurate or well-founded, but it was consistent with information published by the Home Office and with the fears of TLT and TLU that the Iranian authorities had picked it up. TLT, TLU and TLV are convinced that they have done so. Their belief is genuine and it is not irrational. It is not far-fetched that a well-resourced Iranian intelligence agency would monitor UK Government websites by the simple expedient of refining any search by reference to the nationality of those referred to, Iranian. It was not irrational for TLT, TLU and TLV to believe that the Iranian intelligence agency might have been able to match up their details on the spreadsheet with those held in one of their own databases. 26 TLU and TLV described the steps taken on their behalf to find out how often, and by how many people and by what means, the spreadsheet on which TLT's details had been set out had been accessed, and their frustration at the Home Office's delay in providing those details and a redacted copy of the spreadsheet, as I have noted, giving rise to continued concern about access to them by the Iranian authorities. In their case I accept that they, TLU and TLV, did know of these efforts and were concerned about what they would reveal, and that through their efforts TLT also knew and likewise was concerned. 27 In July 2014 the concerns of TLT and TLU led them to relocate from the area in which they had lived for four years to another area. They left behind friends, including TLV's school friends, and the place of worship which they had attended after their arrival in the United Kingdom. Mr. Sanders suggested to them that they would have moved anyway. I accept that they would have had to leave their NASS accommodation but I also accept the evidence of TLT that BEVERLEY F. NUNNERY & CO. OFFICIAL COURT REPORTERS AND AUDIO TRANSCRIBERS

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