Re: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe finally heading back to UK
 

It was a deal between us and the Shah, not the Islamist Revolutionary administration that deposed the Shah.

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Maggy seems to think so...

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The shah's personal cash was it?

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And bozos lazy comments only added fuel to the fire

Re: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe finally heading back to UK
 

Of course not, but if I agree to sell you a car, and to be fair you pay me for it. Then before I deliver it to you, someone attacks you when you’re walking home from the pub and beats you to death and robs your house and bank accounts.

Then claims that the car should be his because he now has your house and bank accounts, I’m not going to be inclined to give the car to you.

Re: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe finally heading back to UK
 

Except this debt wasn’t owed to an individual, but to the State of Iran, and while we may not initially have recognised the revolutionaries as the legitimate government of Iran, it has been many years since we did. It might have seemed to have been a principled moral stand to keep the money and the tanks out of the hands of the mad mullahs, but at the same time we ought to have been more alive to the risks they posed. The clue’s in the name.

While I admit it might be in poor taste to even ask this, I do wonder what travel advice for British citizens was in place in 2016 and whether the lady in question was known to be at greater risk being a dual national. Obviously she’s never now going to go back to Iran. I wonder whether she really ought to have gone back even in 2016.

Re: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe finally heading back to UK
 

It wasn't his car either then and they didn't kill him, they deposed him because he was a murderous, torturing, tyrant who killed up to 100000 people a year for disagreeing with him besides which they didn't want the car, they wanted the counties money back

Re: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe finally heading back to UK
 

The U.K. Gov relaxed the advice about travel in 2015.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ir...n-risk-in-iran

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Governments - its been ongoing since the 1990's.

Still, I suppose I shouldnt be surprised you blame our "government", instead of Iran.

Re: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe finally heading back to UK
 

In the meantime what recompense if any will she and her husband receive for a situation not of their making?

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Cross reference with Flightradar24 and that flight is indeed landing at BZZ in 1h 12

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Re: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe finally heading back to UK
 

BREAKING: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has touched down on UK soil for the first time in 6 years after being held in Iran.

Re: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe finally heading back to UK
 

Indeed, the UK government's hands are clean here, the Iranians should have written that money off the moment winning arbitration, two court victories and overcoming the numerous obstacles placed by a UK government department proved fruitless.

This was so needless and that poor woman and her family should never have suffered this.

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Since the UK lost its legal case to not pay the monies in 2009, then yes I do blame this Government.

I shouldn't be surprised that you do not blame this Government's deliberate policy of not repaying a legally sanctioned debt and so prolonging the imprisonment of an innocent woman.

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I wonder if we can use that excuse in the UK when we have a change of government - nowt to do with us mate, it was them lot on the opposition benches who borrowed it. I suppose it would stop our national debt getting bigger as no-one would lend us anything else, well maybe Iran would as they know how good we are for the money!