Why an old £400m debt to Iran stands in way of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s release
by Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor from World news | The Guardian on (#5RSMS)
The UK signed an arms deal with pre-revolutionary Iran that it never fully delivered on. Will it finally pay the refund it owes?
The former UK foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt has said that practicalities, not principles, are holding back the payment of a 400m British debt to Iran, seen as a precondition of the release of British-Iranian dual nationals held in Tehran, including Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
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