Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian called on the UK to settle its outstanding debts to Iran immediately. In a telephone conversation on Monday, Amirabdollahian and UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss talked about various issues, including Tehran-London relations, the Vienna talks on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, and regional developments....

Irans foreign minister says if the British government makes payment of Irans outstanding debt conditional on the release of the dual British-Iranian national, Nazanin Zaghari, it would be tantamount to stealing the Iranian nations money. Mohammad Javad Zarif made the remarks in a Sundayinterview with a Persian-language newspaperin Tehran, when asked ...

IRNA - Irans Ministry of Defense in a statement on Thursday said that the UK must take practical measures concerning a 40-year debt to the country. In reaction to not paying off the debt by the UK, the statement added that the authorities in the UK have refused to pay the debt under various pretexts such as unlawful and cruel sanctions, causing ...

MNA Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission spokesman asserted that the issue of paying off Irans debt by the UK government has nothing to do with the release of some prisoners. Speaking in an interview with Mehr News Agency, Abolfazl Amouei reacted to the rumors that some are trying to link the payment of a UK debt ...

Tasnim Irans Foreign Ministry spokesperson rejected reports that have drawn a link between the debt the UK owes to Tehran from the non-delivery of Chieftain tanks ordered decades ago and possible release of Nazanin Zaghari, a dual Iranian-British citizen jailed for espionage. In an interview with IRIB, Saeed Khatibzadeh reacted to the reports that ...

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The Guardian | Patrick Wintour; Debt seen as stumbling block for release of British-Iranians including Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe The defence secretary, Ben Wallace, has for the first time acknowledged that he is actively seeking to pay a debt to the Iranian government that could finally help to secure the release of British dual nationals including ...

MNA The UK has admitted for the first time that it is seeking ways to pay off a 40-year-old debt to Iran over tanks that were never delivered. British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace has for the first time acknowledged his countrys debt owed to Iran over a decades-old arms deal. With regard to International Military Services (IMS) Ltd and the ...

The Guardian | Patrick Wintour: The Iranian ambassador to the UK says the British government is taking a new approach to the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, adding bilateral talks were taking place over the payment of an outstanding 400m debt owed by the UK to Iran. Hamid Baeidinejad said the two sides were looking at novel ways for the debt ...

IRNA - A British Court of Appeals hearing on part of debt related to the UK's arms deal with Iran began on Wednesday and will continue until Thursday. The meeting is set to decide on a small portion of the UK arms deal debt to Iran. The court is hearing the representatives of both parties and will continue until tomorrow, according to the announced ...

The Guardian | Patrick Wintour: Government agency using every legal roadblock to delay payment of 400m debt The release of the British-Iranian dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is being held back by a UK government agency engaging in every legal roadblock to delay and minimise the payment to Iran of an acknowledged 400m debt, lawyers for her ...

Tasnim Iranian Ambassador to London Hamid Baeidinejad decried the delay a subsidiary company of the UK Defense Ministry in paying its debt to Iran for a series of defense deals signed between the two countries before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The legal counsel of the UK Defence Ministry subsidiary company resorts to all possible procedural tactics ...

The Guardian - Judge in London to decide amount UK should pay Tehran over 40-year-old arms deal A court hearing in London over a 400m debt owed by the UK government to Iran could help decide the fate of the Iranian-British dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, imprisoned in Evin jail in Tehran for the last four years. Mr Justice Phillips is ...

Press TV - Irans Bank Mellat has issued an official statement rejecting reports that it had received compensations of up to $1.6 billion from the Britain's finance ministry over a litigation process that began in 2009, saying the money pocketed was actually around $100 million. The statement published on Saturday on the Comprehensive Database of ...

Press TV - The United Kingdom has used a third country to evade the US sanctions as it paid Iran's Bank Mellat a settlement in a $1.6 billion damage case, The Times reports. Back in June, the UK government reached an agreement with Bank Mellat to settle the $1.6-billion damages claim brought by the Iranian bank after 10 years of negotiations. Now ...

IRNA Iranian Bank Mellat in a letter to Securities and Exchange Organization announced that HM Treasury has settled Iran's damage claim over being blacklisted worth $1.6 billion. The HM Treasury had sanctioned Bank Mellat for the alleged participation in Iran nuclear program in 2009. This is while, Bank Mellat filed a complaint against HM Treasury ...

The Guardian - UK former foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt has said the UK would obey a court order to hand over 400m to the Iranians, if the precise sum owed is agreed, but added the cash could not be linked to the release of the imprisoned Iranian British dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. He also said western policy towards Iran is not working,...

Iran Front Page - Irans top diplomat said the UK has no option but to settle a four-decade 450m debt to Iran, as Iran has sued the country for dragging its feet to repay the debt and it has achieved good results. The English government has for 40 years dragged its feet over resolving the debt to the Iranian people. The case is going through ...

FNA - The Iranian foreign ministry called on London to clear its 450mln debt to Tehran as soon as possible. "We hope Britain will be able to pay back the sums it owes to Iran as soon as possible," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi told reporters in a press conference in Tehran on Monday. He also dismissed the speculations that the British ...