Former foreign secretaries from both parties say settlement could help free Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
Former foreign secretaries from both Labour and the Tories have joined calls for Britain to repay a £400m debt to Iran that could end the detention of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
Both Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw said that paying the money, relating to the outstanding debt, owed after a cancelled contract for 1,500 Chieftain tanks, could be done without breaching sanctions on Iran or angering western allies. Their plea comes days after Jeremy Hunt, another former foreign secretary, called for the money to be paid.
