British aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe will be released from prison after the UK agreed to pay a £400 million "military debt", an Iranian official has claimed.
Iranian state TV, quoting an anonymous official, says the UK will pay £400 million to Tehran to free Mrs Zaghari-Ratciffe. The news is yet to be confirmed by the UK government and Richard Ratcliffe told the PA news agency he and his family “have heard nothing” about a deal to secure his wife's release.
The Iranian official: "The release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in exchange for the UK's payment of its 400 million pound-debt to Iran has also been finalised." He also confirmed separately a report by a Lebanese pro-Iranian TV channel, al-Mayadeen, that Tehran and Washington
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