6 Dec 2024
Saturday 2 November 2019 - 16:01
Story Code : 362662

Iran debt row holding back Zaghari-Ratcliffe release, says husband

The Guardian | : 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 husband, Richard Ratcliffe, have claimed.

Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was accused of espionage, has been held in a Tehran jail, sometimes in isolation or on hunger strike, since 2016.

The claim about the agency International Military Services was made in a letter sent to the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, who in his ministerial role has 99% control of IMS. The highly secretive IMS now exists solely as a vehicle to manage a 400m debt that an international court has forced the government to accept it owes to Iran.

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