Iranian authorities plan to try a British dual citizen, who is serving a prison sentence for espionage, on new spying charges, sources say.
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Iranian state broadcaster IRIB quoted a source as saying Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 41, and her lawyer were called to the revolutionary court on Tuesday to receive the new indictment.
British opposition Labour MP Tulip Siddiq, who represents Zaghari-Ratcliffe's London constituency, said she had confirmed that "she was taken to court this morning and told she will face another trial on Sunday".
Siddiq tweeted that she had received information on the new case from Zaghari-Ratliffe's British husband, Richard Ratcliffe.
The IRIB source did not reveal details of new indictment against Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager at the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
She was arrested in 2016 after visiting her parents in southern Iran and sentenced to five years in prison for espionage and other offences.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe was also accused of working with a foreign network to topple the Iranian government.
She denied all charges, saying she had only wanted to visit her parents.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic Zaghari-Ratcliffe was granted temporary leave from jail in March, after which her family had hoped for an early release.
Human rights group Amnesty International said the new charges, if confirmed, would be "a terrible blow" for Zaghari-Ratcliffe, her family and her supporters.
"Nazanin has already been convicted once after a deeply unfair trial, and there should be no question of her being put through that ordeal again," Kate Allen, the director of Amnesty International UK, said in a statement.
"There have always been concerns that the Iranian authorities were playing cruel political games with Nazanin, and that looks to be the case here," Allen said.
Labour's shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the reports of new charges were "deeply concerning".
"The UK government must now make urgent representations to the Iranian government and reiterate demands for her immediate release and safe return to the UK," Nandy said.
The Guardian reported last week that Britain had admitted for the first time, in a letter from Defence Secretary Ben Wallace to Zaghari-Ratcliffe's lawyers, that it was "actively seeking" to pay a debt to the Iranian government that could help to secure the release of several imprisoned British dual citizens.
Britain is believed to owe up to 400 million pounds ($A721 million) after its non-delivery of military tanks ordered by the Shah of Iran prior to his overthrow in 1979, the newspaper said.
Australian Associated Press
