British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said it would be beyond the pale for Iranian-British aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to be returned to detention in Iran at this time.

He added that Britain was still enagaged in a process of paying back a debt it owns to Iran but that this was �not linked but in parallel� to the legal case.

�There�s been a process that has been ongoing,� he told Sky News about the debt dating back to 1979. �It�s not linked but it�s in parallel, where we�ve been saying look we recognise this debt and we�ll look at how we can resolve it as best we can.

�Frankly that is separate from the clear and immediate obligation on the right to not to detain British nationals.

�It will be beyond the pale, for her to be returned to detention at this time.�

Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Source: Reuters