{"id":249759,"date":"2022-03-17T08:42:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T03:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=249759"},"modified":"2022-03-17T08:42:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T03:42:18","slug":"uk-looking-at-ways-to-pay-historic-iranian-debt-foreign-secretary-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/uk-looking-at-ways-to-pay-historic-iranian-debt-foreign-secretary-says\/","title":{"rendered":"UK looking at ways to pay historic Iranian debt, foreign secretary says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> LONDON<br \/>\nBritain is looking at ways to pay a historic 400 million pound ($522 million) debt to Iran, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said on Wednesday, adding that she would not say if it had been settled already. Iranian state media in 2021 cited unidentified Iranian officials as saying that the British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe would be freed once the debt had been paid.<br \/>\nTruss was asked by Sky News if Zaghari-Ratcliffe was going to be able to return to London soon. She said she had made her case a priority, and added that she had also made repaying the Iranian debt a priority. \u201cWe have been clear this is a legitimate debt that we do owe Iran and we have been seeking ways to pay it,\u201d Truss said. She added that there was a British team in Iran but would not give any further details.<br \/>\nIran\u2019s clerical rulers say Britain owes the money that Iran\u2019s Shah paid up front for 1,750 Chieftain tanks and other vehicles, almost none of which were eventually delivered after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 toppled the U.S.-backed leader. The British and Iranian governments say there is no connection between the debt and the legal case.<br \/>\nZaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested at a Tehran airport in April 2016 and later convicted by an Iranian court of plotting to overthrow the clerical establishment.<br \/>\nHer family and the foundation, a charity that operates independently of Thomson Reuters and its news subsidiary Reuters, deny the charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON Britain is looking at ways to pay a historic 400 million pound ($522 million) debt to Iran, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said on Wednesday, adding that she would not say if it had been settled already. 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