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UK looking at ways to pay historic Iranian debt, foreign secretary says

FILE PHOTO: British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss attends the Commonwealth Day service ceremony at Westminster Abbey, in London, Britain March 14, 2022. Daniel Leal/Pool via REUTERS

Britain is looking at ways to pay a historic 400 million pound ($522 million) debt to Iran, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said on Wednesday, adding that she would not say if it had been settled already.

Iranian state media in 2021 cited unidentified Iranian officials as saying that the British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe would be freed once the debt had been paid.

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