The UK wants to pay off long-standing and “legitimate” debt it owes Iran, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said Wednesday. Tehran has urged the UK to pay off the £400 million debt, a sum the late Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi paid more than four decades ago for tanks that were never delivered. The money is widely thought to be a sticking point in the release of dual British-Iranian nationals held in Iran. After Truss gave a keynote speech on the UK’s foreign policy priorities at Chatham House in London, she was asked why the UK had not paid Iran back. “We are working to resolve this issue,” Tr…

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