Court hearing over UKs £400m tank deal debt to Iran postponed Patrick Wintour, Diplomatic editor © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA
A high court hearing designed to resolve the UK’s non-payment of a £400m debt to Iran has been postponed again, leaving the families of dual nationals detained in Iran distraught since they believe the debt is critical to their release of loved ones.
Neither Iran nor the UK would explain why the court hearing – scheduled for Tuesday – had been postponed.
Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who is still held in Tehran despite completing a five-year sentence, said he would be demanding an explanation for the postponement from the foreign secretary Dominic Raab. Zaghari-Ratcliffe is facing the threat of a second sentence and was told a month ago by the Iranian courts she would hear in seven working days whether she would face a second spell behind bars after serving five
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For Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the end of her sentence may not mean freedom Roland Oliphant © WANA NEWS AGENCY via Reuters British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe poses for a photo after she was released from house arrest in Tehran - WANA NEWS AGENCY via Reuters
After five years of imprisonment and house arrest, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe must have felt a surge of elation when Iranian prison officials finally removed her ankle tag on Sunday. But relief will be tempered by the knowledge that the end of her prison sentence does not necessarily mean her freedom.
The blunt truth, her family fear, is that she is one of several British-Iranian hostages being held for ransom. And that ransom has still not been paid.