Iran will release Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe after the UK agress to pay £400m debt

[Denver]

Iranian news stations are saying that the UK have agreed to pay £400m war debt in exchange for Nazanin

[Denver]

Iran have also thought to have agreed to a Prisoners swap deal with the US

[arista]

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband ends hunger strike after 21 days

He achieved Nothing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59275772

Update :
Any Money Owed to Iran
now has Interest added from 1970's.


The UK Government
will not debate this topic,
they are maybe negotiating the Money
time will tell.

[arista]

https://news.sky.com/story/nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe-husband-richard-ends-three-week-hunger-strike-as-his-daughter-needs-two-parents-12467700

[Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe's husband has
ended his three-week hunger strike
after making a promise to his imprisoned wife.

Richard Ratcliffe has been camped
outside the Foreign Office in London
for the past 21 days as part of his
long-standing campaign for his wife's
release from Iranian prison.]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FEEzcFxXIAQAQCp?format=jpg&name=medium


Its a Long waiting Game
you wasted 21 hard days.
Sadly.

[joeysteele]

This is awful this Lady still held in Iran.
I'd love to hear she will be returned to her Husband soon.

[arista]

This is awful this Lady still held in Iran.
I'd love to hear she will be returned to her Husband soon.


Iran wants the Money back
they paid for Tanks and Weapons (Late 1970's)
but they never got delivered (Iran had the Revolution)
& did not get the Cash back.


The price has gone UP
Iran wants the Interest on that Cash.


Now Johnson could be scared to pay it back
breaking the USA sanctions etc.


I would pay all the Money back
in secret.

[Livia]

The money to which they refer was paid by the Shah's government for tanks. Then, before any tanks were delivered, Iran was taken by coup and fell to the Islamists who have done their best to drag the country back to the dark ages.

We should start repatriating Iranians in retaliation. I don't mean keep them in prison and treat them inhumanely like the Islamists do... simply start cancelling visas and send them home.

[bots]

i'm sorry if it upsets people, but I don't think we know the full story about this lady. The money aspect is obviously a smoke screen, but everyone is protesting her innocence apart from Boris in his time as foreign secretary who implied she was anything but innocent.

I think the iranians could have let her go, but, underneath it all they may have some justification that is not being made public. Don't always believe the narrative that is being fed to everyone

[arista]

i'm sorry if it upsets people, but I don't think we know the full story about this lady. The money aspect is obviously a smoke screen, but everyone is protesting her innocence apart from Boris in his time as foreign secretary who implied she was anything but innocent.

I think the Iranians could have let her go, but, underneath it all they may have some justification that is not being made public. Don't always believe the narrative that is being fed to everyone


Yes he has said sorry for that.


Once the UK does pay the Cash back
she can be released and sent home
having served enough time.

[joeysteele]

Yes he has said sorry for that.


Once the UK does pay the Cash back
she can be released and sent home
having served enough time.

He should NEVER have implied it especially in relation to a Nation like Iran.
He was Foreign Secretary at the time, unbelievably so unfortunately.

Can Iran be trusted to release her, or not create something else to hold her on.

Should she even have ever been held hostage like anyway, for anything.
Her husband has had it seems just lip service from the government and the man who is now PM who only added to her plight in Iran with dangerous and careless comments.

[bots]

if she was spying, and Boris implied that she was, then it's no surprise that iran would lock her up. I firmly believe that facts are being withheld by the british government

[arista]

if she was spying, and Boris implied that she was, then it's no surprise that Iran would lock her up. I firmly believe that facts are being withheld by the british government


No, she would never be that stupid
with her child, with her at the time.

[joeysteele]

No, she would never be that stupid
with her child, with her at the time.

I agree with that.
It's one massive mess very sadly.

[bots]

No, she would never be that stupid
with her child, with her at the time.

Spies don't have children Arista?

[joeysteele]

I don't think myself she was spying in any capacity.

There's only one individual who has insinuated that and that is Johnson.

No other Foreign Secretary since, nor the then PM Theresa May supported his comment.

He wasn't on top of his brief in the job as Foreign Secretary, it's not the only error he made.
This was a very serious and dangerous uninformed comment to make.

He has sort of apologised for it and backtracked.
He was an absolute clown but dangerous clown in the Foreign office.
It won't surprise me some will try to cover for him as if he knew more than ANYONE else, including his then Leader and PM.

He is in some part, part of the reason this lady has suffered this imprisonment for so long.
Her child denied her Mum and her Husband being given lip service by Johnson and his Ministers too.

Their suffering is the main issue.
I won't waste my time making excuses for Johnson.

He's never been able to curb his rash and dangerous misinformed outbursts.
It's time he was actually made to take responsibility for making them.

[arista]

Prime Minister was asked Live in the
Select Committee
about her in Jail in Iran

Asked about paying the money back


Johnson is considering it.


At the End he did just under 2 hours
in that Committee

[arista]

SkyNews Feed:


[Now 16:54
PM: It breaks my heart that I can't promise
to bring Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe home for Christmas

Former foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt
asks about Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe,
an Iranian-British woman who remains
in house arrest in Iran.
Mr Johnson says he is not happy with
her still being in jail and says it is worth
considering bringing bags of cash over to
Iran to repay the debt the UK owes,
which Iran is said to be holding her over.

The PM says he has been in touch
with Nazanin and he is horrified
with her ordeal and has nothing
but admiration for the way she has dealt with it.

He says the government is working
as hard as they can to try to bring
her home for Christmas but it breaks
his heart that he can't make that promise.]

[arista]

Her MP has said she now has her passport
back



And Reports the UK has paid Iran the Money back.


BBC Politics Live BBC2HD

https://twitter.com/patrickwintour/status/1503649440200077314

https://twitter.com/MailOnline/status/1503686209402511364

[UserSince2005]

We better not have paid those barbarians nothing.

[arista]

We better not have paid those barbarians nothing.


Iran Paid the UK
that money
in the 1970's
but then a Revolution changed the power
and the contract halted.


UK kept the Cash.

So Talk Sense
User 2005

[Cherie]

Hope this is it for her, there have been so many false hopes raised over the years

[arista]

Hope this is it for her, there have been so many false hopes raised over the years


Yes well her Labour MP
confirmed her passport was returned to her
that is very welcome news,


The £400 million
1970 Iran Money
should have been paid back.
A deal very old.


[British-Iranian detainee Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
has had her UK passport returned, her MP has said.
She has been detained in Iran for more than five years
on spying charges after being arrested there
in 2016 while taking her daughter to see her family.]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60749863

[bots]

i think no-one will believe it until she is back on home soil

[arista]

i think no-one will believe it until she is back on home soil

Of course.

[arista]

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[arista]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FN605QWXwAYb7EF?format=jpg&name=900x900

[arista]

She is now able to leave


Off to the Airport right now

[arista]

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[bots]

she is on her way home

[arista]

she is on her way home

Via another nation.

[arista]

Also another leaves

[Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
and Anoosheh Ashouri: Iran detainees heading
to airport before leaving country, lawyer says]


[Anoosheh Ashouri was arrested in Iran
and was jailed for 10 years on spying charges.]


https://news.sky.com/story/nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe-and-anoosheh-ashouri-iran-detainees-heading-to-airport-before-leaving-country-lawyer-says-12566669

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60756870

[arista]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/03/16/10/55421641-0-image-m-20_1647426887091.jpg

[Kizzy]

Good news, as if Boris help at all :/

[arista]

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[arista]

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[arista]

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[arista]

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[arista]

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[arista]

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[rusticgal]

Great news…

[Beso]

I hope she gets a wee back hander...

From the 400 mill..and an angry mother, if she's still alive...scaring the life out us..

[GoldHeart]

Finally

I bet those were the longest 6 years of her life

[arista]

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/9199/production/_123737273_times-nc.png

[Zizu]

I hope she gets a wee back hander...

From the 400 mill..and an angry mother, if she's still alive...scaring the life out us..


400 million is an incredible amount of money !!

She seems like a lovely woman with a lovely family but think how much good we could done to our hospitals we could have done with that much !


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[bots]

it's great to see her back on british soil

[Kizzy]

400 million is an incredible amount of money !!

She seems like a lovely woman with a lovely family but think how much good we could done to our hospitals we could have done with that much !


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It's nothing... it cost that for Boris to decorate his living room! Look at the billions that were wasted in bogus ppe payments. Syphoning off public money when we were all distracted trying to stay alive...

[Cherie]

400 million is an incredible amount of money !!

She seems like a lovely woman with a lovely family but think how much good we could done to our hospitals we could have done with that much !


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There is more to this than meets the eye...also they said it wasn’t paid in cash...there is a suggestion it was vaccines that were sent

If it were your wife or family member you wouldn’t be saying this ...

Delighted she is home

[bots]

the 400 million was for a contract in the 70's that the uk did not fulfil and owed iran. It wasnt a ransom

[arista]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/03/17/02/55457127-10621599-image-m-52_1647483080609.jpg
[Finally reunited: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe,
pictured holding her seven-year-old daughter Gabriella
and with her husband Richard,
and Anoosheh Ashoori with family members including
his daughter Elika after landing in the UK last night]


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10621599/Nazanin-HOME-Freed-Iranian-prisoner-touches-RAF-Brize-Norton.html

[MTVN]

Liz Truss did that

[Zizu]

There is more to this than meets the eye...also they said it wasn’t paid in cash...there is a suggestion it was vaccines that were sent

If it were your wife or family member you wouldn’t be saying this ...

Delighted she is home


Sky said that an outstanding debt from the seventies had been settled just recently leading to her release


Have they now set a precedent ???


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[Zizu]

the 400 million was for a contract in the 70's that the uk did not fulfil and owed iran. It wasnt a ransom


But settling the debt has triggered her release so it’s not that dissimilar, surely


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[bots]

But settling the debt has triggered her release so it’s not that dissimilar, surely


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iran waited 50 years nearly to get their money back, they resorted to trumped up charges, but the uk is hardly blameless

[Toy Soldier]

400 million is an incredible amount of money !!

She seems like a lovely woman with a lovely family but think how much good we could done to our hospitals we could have done with that much !


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I have my doubts that it had anything to do with her release really other than in passing - incoming Iranian oil deal perhaps? I can see the conversation going thus;

"We want to make middle east oil deals cos Russia"

"Sure. But you have to pay us back that money you've owed us forever and keep refusing to repay."

"SIGH. Fine, we'll repay your money. WAIT... you have to release Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe as well since you previously said you'd do that if we paid it back."

"...Deal"

[Kizzy]

I have my doubts that it had anything to do with her release really other than in passing - incoming Iranian oil deal perhaps? I can see the conversation going thus;

"We want to make middle east oil deals cos Russia"

"Sure. But you have to pay us back that money you've owed us forever and keep refusing to repay."

"SIGH. Fine, we'll repay your money. WAIT... you have to release Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe as well since you previously said you'd do that if we paid it back."

"...Deal"

Yes, I think there will have also been a swop of some kind... someone who I suspect is much more of a threat than Nazanin will be leaving here.

[UserSince2005]

No one gives/gave a **** about Anoosheh Ashoori. The sexism and racism of it all.

[arista]

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[Zizu]

Hopefully she doesn’t ever go back to Iran at any time in the future


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[arista]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOIXEYdXoAMv48c?format=jpg&name=small

[arista]

Naz and her happy daughter in
their kitchen

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOItIgXXoAMX3dW?format=jpg&name=900x900

[Beso]

Naz and her happy daughter in
their kitchen

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOItIgXXoAMX3dW?format=jpg&name=900x900

Such a heartwarming image.

[arista]

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is going to give a
Press Conference today

[arista]

Now Live in Westminster

[arista]

She is restricting the Questions

[arista]

1505879451602767873

[Zizu]

Kinda surprised she’s criticising and blaming us for everything...


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[arista]

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[Beso]

Kinda surprised she’s criticising and blaming us for everything...


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To be fair, if we were going to pay this 40 year old debt, we could have paid it 6 years ago to save her and her family 6 years of anguish.

Instead, shes been treated like a compounded car.

[bots]

timing is always important in these things. Basically the stars aligned to make it possible now where it wasnt possible previously

[arista]

Left Winger on his 10AM show LBC Live
wasted an hour on this.
He did not get the callers HE wanted.


Pathetic

[arista]

Kinda surprised she’s criticising and blaming us for everything...



Not Everything.


But she knew at the Start
they wanted their, 400Million.


She was talking fair.

[Beso]

Left Winger on his 10AM show LBC Live
wasted an hour on this.
He did not get the callers HE wanted.


Pathetic



Thays cause they didnt let me on.

[Zizu]

Not Everything.


But she knew at the Start
they wanted their, 400Million.


She was talking fair.


I rather she just blamed Iran , to be honest


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[bots]

the bottom line is that iran falsely imprisoned someone on false charges. That is entirely irans responsibility. A country is judged by its actions toward people, it's humanity, and in that it failed miserably

[Zizu]

Breaking:-…..#KeirStarmer says he would have paid the £400m 7 years ago and got Nazanin out a year before she flew to Iran in the first place


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[Beso]

Breaking:-…..#KeirStarmer says he would have paid the £400m 7 years ago and got Nazanin out a year before she flew to Iran in the first place


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Hindsight is a lovely tool.