UK Pays Millions of Dollars in Debt to Iran

After more than 40 years of delay and after protracted negotiations, the British government recently paid its debts to the Islamic Republic of Iran; This is the right of the honorable people of Iran,” Jatibzadeh specified, citing various local newspapers.

The amount spent is 390 million pounds ($512 million), which, according to British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, is “a legal debt that the United Kingdom has to repay” to the country.

The Iranian spokesman expressed his regret for the British administration’s link between repaying its debts over the years and political issues.

But he stressed that “the Islamic Republic of Iran has never deviated from its position on restoring the rights of the Iranian nation.”

The religion arose from a military agreement signed during the 1970s between Iran and the United Kingdom, according to which Tehran would buy hundreds of Chieftain tanks and other armored vehicles from London, an agreement that was scrapped after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979 and due to sanctions against the Persian state.

Iranian sources denied any connection between the repayment of the debt and the release of two British spies, which happened the day before.

Khatibzad made it clear that there was no connection between the payment of this debt and the release of Nazanin Zakari and Anousheh Ashouri, two British Iranian citizens imprisoned on charges of spying on Tehran.

Zachary was arrested in April 2016 at Imam Khomeini International Airport on her way back to London, and was later sentenced in an Iranian court to five years in prison after being convicted of espionage and spreading propaganda against the republic. HispanTV channel.

Meanwhile, Ashouri, who previously lived in southeast London with her family, was arrested in August 2017 and sentenced to 10 years in prison for cooperating with the Israeli spy agency (Mossad) and two years for obtaining 33,000 euros in “illegal money” roughly a year later. The TV source confirmed.

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