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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's lawyers condemn UK 'failure' to settle Iran debt

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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s legal team has accused the Government of dragging its feet over repaying a £400m debt to Iran. Lawyers acting for the British-Iranian woman have written to the Defence Secretary Ben Wallace to demand a meeting over the issue of the debt dating back to a sale of British tanks to the-then shah of Iran in the 1970s.

Her husband Richard Ratcliffe has suggested that the mother-of-one is being used as collateral by Tehran to force the UK into settling the multimillion-pound dispute.

In a letter to Mr Wallace, sent earlier this month, lawyers expressed “grave concerns” about the UK’s “failure” to repay the cash. “This failure continues to blight UK-Iranian relations and remains an intractable obstacle to Nazanin’s

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