Tuesday, 15 February 2022

Truss tells Iran she hopes UK will soon be able to repay £400m debt

Tehran is keen to see Britain do more to help with Afghan refugee crisis

Liz Truss has said she hopes Britain will soon be in a position to pay the £400m debt overdue to Iran, according to an Iranian account of the phone call between the foreign secretary and her Tehran counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.

UK government officials have been exploring legal ways to pay Britain’s historical debt, although international economic sanctions on Iran have made it difficult.

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