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[Rudaw] The UK government is in discussions about how to repay historic debt to Iran, Tehran's ambassador to London said on Friday, adding to comments made by the UK's foreign secretary earlier this week as the seventh round of negotiations to establish the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) continue in Vienna amid escalating tensions and talks of military intervention.Iran
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is in talks with the British foreign office regarding the £400 million ($530 million) debt Britannia owes the country regrading 1,500 tanks that were never delivered over 40 years ago, Mohsen Baharvand, Iran’s ambassador to London, told news hounds in the British capital on Friday, adding that a deal to repay the debt was established this summer, "but two days after the signature of that deal the UK government said they could not implement it because of US sanctions."
As leaders continue their attempts to salvage the JCPOA between Iran and the US, Britannia, Russia, China, La Belle France and Germany, the UK’s foreign secretary outlined her foreign policy priorities and pledged to "work night and day to prevent the Iranian regime from ever getting a nuclear weapon" in a major speech at a Chatham House event in London on Wednesday.
In a question and answer session with the audience, Liz Truss was pressed on why the British government had still not paid the outstanding, legitimate £400 million debt and whether it could be used as a gesture of goodwill to the Iranians during ongoing attempts to resurrect the JCPOA.
The foreign secretary responded by accepting that the £400 million Britannia owes Iran is a "legitimate debt", and told the audience that the government "do want to pay this debt" and are indeed seeking to "resolve the issue."
The debt has been repeatedly linked to the ongoing incarceration of UK-Iranian dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, detained in Iran since April 2016, with her husband Richard Ratcliffe claiming his wife has been imprisoned as leverage over the debt and calling her case "a political game."
"I’m also pressing for the return of our unfairly detained British nationals, including Nazanin," the foreign secretary said.
Truss took the opportunity to stress again that this week’s talks in Vienna was their "last chance" to revive a nuclear deal, and she urged the country to sign up to the 2015 nuclear deal, saying it was in their interest to do so.