BRITAIN is preparing to pay a long standing £450m debt to Iran that will help free imprisoned mum Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
Boris Johnson and Chancellor Philip Hammond quietly authorised government lawyers to finally settle the 38 year-long dispute over a tank deal.
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An international court ordered the UK to reimburse Teheran after the MoD reneged on a deal to sell Chieftan tanks to Iran in 1979, but still kept Irans cash.
As The Sun revealed yesterday, Iranian regime hardliners have told ministers they expect the debt to be settled as part of a shopping list of demands before Nazanin is freed.
The traumatised 38-year-ol…
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