Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been handed over to a British team at an Iranian airport after the UK reportedly paid a £400million debt to Tehran, Iranian state media has claimed.
Britain has “settled a long-overdue debt of $530million to Tehran,” Iran’s English language broadcaster Press TV announced.
However, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said today that Britain is looking at ways to pay a historic £400 million ($522 million) debt to Iran, adding that she would not say if it had been settled already, Reuters reports.
“We've made it a priority to pay the debt that we do owe Iran and we have been seeking ways to pay it," she told Sky News. She added that there was a British team in Iran.
This comes as news emerged that British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been handed over to a British team at Tehran's International Imam Khomeini Airport and she is leaving Iran today.
