Is she coming home?

[OwlHoot]

BoJo has released some Iranian funds frozen at the time the Shah was in power

Wasn't it a load of gold the Shah had deposited for safekeeping in the Bank of England, before he was overthrown by the Ayatollah & co?

I think the UK agreed several years ago to return this to Iran in due course, but this return was delayed until now by sanctions.

[DealorNoDeal]

Apparently it was £400m for tanks which Iran ordered and paid for, prior to the Islamic Revolution, which was never fulfilled.

https://news.sky.com/story/nazanin-z...eedom-12566882

[mattster]

Some good news in the news at last. Great stuff, and welcome home Nazanin.

[Paddy]

Apparently it was £400m for tanks which Iran ordered and paid for, prior to the Islamic Revolution, which was never fulfilled.

https://news.sky.com/story/nazanin-z...eedom-12566882

There are other items not mentioned in the news. I remember newly built warships built at Southampton that were not delivered.

[vetran]

Apparently it was £400m for tanks which Iran ordered and paid for, prior to the Islamic Revolution, which was never fulfilled.

https://news.sky.com/story/nazanin-z...eedom-12566882

Well they dodged a bullet there,our recent attempts at creating tanks were far from successful

[Darren_Test]

I think lesson from the story is if you leave your country of birth for better life somewhere else thats fine. But don't go back there and try to screw them because you are paid by your new masters..!!

[NotAllThere]

What took them so bloody long? Let me guess what Iran has...

Well - £400 million quid now.

Legally owed. Funny thing, during the original Crimea war, Russia and Britain still serviced their sovereign debts to each other. Back then, war was war, but business was business.

[jayn200]

excellent stuff. I was reminded this morning how lucky we are to live in the UK, someone was pointing out very few countries we go to for energy have even vaguely good human rights issues. Iraq, Iran, Saudi , China and even the US still execute people on a regular basis we should have moved away from dependency on them decades ago.

So weird to me to be against a country (USA) executing serial killers... you should spend some time looking up the people who got executed, these are not political prisoners, they're the worst of the worst, they've mostly killed multiple people, quite often defenseless women and children.

... and no sitting in prison is not punishment enough, doesn't even come close to the terror they unleashed on their victims and their families. There is a reason they all fight as hard as they can to avoid their execution... because no matter how evil and messed up they are they don't want to die.. and that's precisely why they should. They don't mind jail, it doesn't bother them, they thrive in there. It's barely even a punishment.

[Paddy]

So weird to me to be against a country (USA) executing serial killers... you should spend some time looking up the people who got executed, these are not political prisoners, they're the worst of the worst, they've mostly killed multiple people, quite often defenseless women and children.

... and no sitting in prison is not punishment enough, doesn't even come close to the terror they unleashed on their victims and their families. There is a reason they all fight as hard as they can to avoid their execution... because no matter how evil and messed up they are they don't want to die.. and that's precisely why they should. They don't mind jail, it doesn't bother them, they thrive in there. It's barely even a punishment.

Notwithstanding that a number of people executed have later been found innocent. No doubt the execution of the innocent is a price worth paying with the exception of if it's your own son or daughter who is wrongly convicted.

[OwlHoot]

Notwithstanding that a number of people executed have later been found innocent. No doubt the execution of the innocent is a price worth paying with the exception of if it's your own son or daughter who is wrongly convicted.

If there are any, they're almost certainly career criminals anyway. So it would be an occupational hazard, and their lookout.