Our government needs oil with the Russian/Ukraine war going on, so decided to pay the £400M debt which has been outstanding for over 40 years (some of the delay was down to sanctions against Iran)
Three Iranian delegates came to London in 2013 and were detained here. The government refused to...
Anoosheh Ashoori was released with her and is male. I don't know why the third man has still been held.
If you are on Twitter the hashtag #sendherback is trending.
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Nazanin mentioned five Foreign Secretaries. I've just named them.
There is also an element of misogyny in this, as in how dare 'that woman' speak up for herself. It may not be so prevalent on Nsc but certainly on Twitter. I have seen some vile posts calling her all the names under the sun.
After the court order in 2009, who won the General Election in 2010?
Liz Truss
2021-
Dominic Raab
2019 to 2021
Jeremy Hunt
2018 to 2019
Boris Johnson
2016 to 2018
Philip Hammond
2014 to 2016
William Hague
2010 to 2014
All Tories.
IT WAS NOT TAX PAYERS MONEY!
Yes I am shouting because you've already been told. It was a refund to Iran for money they had paid us in 1979. An International court told Britain to pay it when the sanctions on Iran were removed in 1979. The money had been kept in the bank and needed to be...
The £400 million was a ‘refund’ for armaments not delivered but paid for, because the Ayotollah had taken over from the Shah, so change of regime. There were sanctions on Iran. The sanctions were removed by the UN.
You may have noticed there were three people held, not just Nazanin.
Truly parroted from your right wing websites. The money had been owed to Iran from the 70s so it wasn’t a ransom.
Yes, 5 Foreign secretaries let her down including Johnson, whose stupid comments about journalists caused her extra years in captivity.
She had gone to visit family with her...