his ordeal was lynched to a decades-old debt the uk owed iran worth more than $5 million. what did the foreign office tell you about that debt when you first asked them? do you remember the day you raised it with them? the foreign office, up until, i would say, past last year, even maybe later, uh, denied that there was any link between the two cases. between the deaths and the cases of my husband. once the uk paid the debt, both were released and on a government plane back home. in a statement after their release, the uk foreign secretary liz truss said in parallel we have also settled the ims debt, as we said we would. iran s foreign minister acknowledged the debt had been paid, but tie dee anywayed there was any link to the prisoner
you about that debt when you first asked them? do you remember the day that you raised it with them? the foreign office up until i would say perhaps last year, even maybe later, denied that there was any link between the two cases, between the debts and the cases of my husband and nazanin. reporter: once the uk paid the debt both nazanin and anoosheh were released and on a government plane back home. in a statement after their release uk foreign secretary liz truss said, in parallel we have also settled the ims debt as we said we would. there we go. yeah. reporter: iran s foreign minister acknowledged the debt had been paid but denied there was any link to the prisoner release. when we arrived in britain and i saw sherri, the way nazanin saw her daughter and she
even maybe later, denied that there was any link between the two cases. between the debts and the cases of my husband. reporter: once the uk paid the debt, both prisoners were released and on a government plane back home. in a statement after their release, the uk foreign secretary, liz truss, said in parallel, we have also settled the ims debt as we said we would. iran s foreign minister acknowledged the debt had been paid but denied there was any link to the prisoner release. when we arrived in britain and i saw sherry, he saw his daughter. she burst into tears. i m trying to stop my tears now. and she hugged her daughter.
do things in terms of paying the ims debt and we have been able to deliver on this, but we have to remember that fundamentally it was the iranian government who put these people in detention and ultimately what we need to do, as many mothers across this house have been saying is change the incentives in government, so taking detainees unfailingly billie unfairly is not seen as something that is a proposition in the modern world, but i do pay tribute to foreign office officials who have worked tirelessly for years to make this happen. thank ou, mr for years to make this happen. thank you. mr speaker- for years to make this happen. thank you, mr speaker. the for years to make this happen. triag ia; you, mr speaker. the daughter of morad tahbaz is my constituent and i would like to pay tribute to the foreign secretary and her team for all her efforts. can my right honourable friend assure me that she and her team will continue to work with the us, in order to ensure that he may leave
has been looking at some of the implications the last time a ransom payment was paid to the iranian government, and that branson payment was paid by the us government a number of years ago will stop the iranian government took another six american dual nationals hostage and merely started the whole process again. sadly, the money that was paid was then spent on murdering hundreds and thousands of sunny muslims in syria. can she assure that that will not happen this time? and that none of this payment will end up in weapons and ammunition to kill syrians? end up in weapons and ammunition to kill s rians? . , . end up in weapons and ammunition to kill s rians? , , , , kill syrians? firstly, it is very important kill syrians? firstly, it is very important to kill syrians? firstly, it is very important to note kill syrians? firstly, it is very important to note that - kill syrians? firstly, it is very important to note that these | kill syrians? firstly, it is very i important to not