The Guardian: Britain is considering its options for paying off its debt to Iran.
The British Foreign Office has claimed that London is considering options to pay its ۰۰ 400m debt to Iran.
A British newspaper today, Tuesday (February 15th), quoting the Foreign Ministry, claims that London is considering its options to pay the میلیون 400 million debt to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
“We are considering our options for resolving this case as a matter of urgency,” the Foreign Office wrote in response to a question about the debt.
The British newspaper quoted the London Foreign Office as saying that Britain was committed to paying the debt.
The Guardian says that in the Iranian version of the telephone conversation between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and the British Foreign Secretary, Liz Terrace, the British side “expressed hope that the country would be able to repay its overdue debts to Iran in the near future.” To pay. “
The British Foreign Secretary said about two months ago that his ۴ 400m debt to Iran was a “legal debt” and that the London government wanted to pay it off.
Iran and Britain signed an agreement in the 1970s to deliver 1,500 tanks and 250 armored vehicles to Iran. London stopped delivering these tanks to Iran after capturing the US spy nest. The Pahlavi regime has paid all the amounts related to this contract, which according to some reports amounted to one billion dollars.
The International Court of Arbitration has ordered a British military service company to pay the Iranian government میلیون 400 million. However, Britain refused to repay the figure at the time on the pretext that international sanctions would not allow money to be transferred to Iran.
In the same Pahlavi regime, this agreement also had opponents, including General Fereydoun Jam, the then Chief of Staff of the Army, which, of course, was not taken into consideration by the Shah and a purchase was made. With the Islamic Revolution, the International Military Services Company (IMS), as a tank seller and a representative of the British government that had already received all its money, unilaterally and illegally canceled the contract and refused to deliver Iranian tanks.
