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| Britain preparing to transfer 400 million pounds to Iran |
| 2017-11-16 |
| Britain is preparing to transfer over 400 million pounds ($527 million) to Iran as it seeks the release of a jailed Iranian-British aid worker, The Telegraph newspaper reported, citing unidentified British sources. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was sentenced to five years after being convicted by an Iranian court of plotting to overthrow the clerical establishment. She denies the charges. Britain has sought legal advice over whether it could transfer the funds which it owes as a result of a disputed arms deal in the 1970s. Diplomats told the newspaper that any payment should not be linked to the fate of Zaghari-Ratcliffe. The Thomson Reuters Foundation is a charity organization that is independent of Thomson Reuters. It operates independently of Reuters News. A spokesman for Britain's Foreign Office could not be reached for comment out of normal business hours. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #10 Shove a few dye packs around with pig's blood in them |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2017-11-16 22:36 |
| #9 ^ I'd pretty much give my life (minus a few minutes to make some phone calls) for that story to be true. Sadly, I think I'm safe. Pretty subtle work for a site like that. |
| Posted by: Shomogum Unomoth9006 2017-11-16 16:33 |
| #8 There was $400 million in cash seized by British intelligence on 11/10/17 from a Clinton Foundation warehouse. Here. Any chance this seized money was linked to this Iranian transfer? That's a lot of cash on hand. CF has said it distributes about 88% to charity but experts say only about 10% goes to charity. Maybe I've been looking at the internet too much lately and just getting a little too conspiratorial. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-11-16 16:14 |
| #7 Were I in cbarge, I would do nothing to help those who voluntarily went to a hostile foreign country and got arrested. |
| Posted by: gorb 2017-11-16 13:47 |
| #6 Britistan following Obammer's choice to fund Iran's nukes & global Jihad. No surprise. Which was and is treason. Sad that even Fox refuses to admit. Dar al-Islam aided and abetted. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2017-11-16 12:27 |
| #5 Iran is an ally of Russia, for realz. When is Mueller and Co. going to investigate this? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2017-11-16 10:03 |
| #4 The Iranian ransom price was established by Zero; the surprise is that it didn't go up - inflation, you know. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2017-11-16 09:31 |
| #3 400/72 virgins = 5.55555555 (what I don't know). Islamic 666? |
| Posted by: Beau 2017-11-16 04:12 |
| #2 Maybe four hundred sounds especially good in Farsi. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-11-16 04:00 |
| #1 What is it about the number 400? Is it the Danegeld leap payoff or something? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2017-11-16 03:59 |