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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Gavin Cordon

Nazanin arrest ‘may have been retaliation for detention of Iranians in UK’

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The detention of an Iranian delegation at Heathrow Airport almost a decade ago may have been behind the arrest of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, former foreign secretary Jack Straw has claimed.

Mr Straw said the Iranian team arrived in the UK in 2013 to discuss the repayment of a historical £400 million pound debt Britain owed for a consignment of tanks that was never delivered.

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