Britain to pay 400 million
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
“An outstanding debt owed by the U.K. to Tehran will be transferred to the Central Bank of Iran in the coming days. The payment ... has nothing to do with  Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s  case ” Hamid Baeedinejad wrote on his Telegram channel.
 Zaghari-Ratcliffe  was detained in April 2016 in Tehran as  she  tried to leave Iran after a visit with  her  two-year-old daughter.
 She  was sentenced to five years in prison after an Iranian court convicted  her  of plotting to overthrow the clerical establishment.  She  denies the charges  and Britain has called for  her  release. Iran does not recognize dual citizenship for its nationals.
The Telegraph newspaper reported on Thursday that Britain was working on a plan to pay Iran the debt  as part of efforts to secure the release of  Zaghari-Ratcliffe .
 Zaghari-Ratcliffe  is a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation  a charity organization that is independent of Thomson Reuters.  It  operates independently of Reuters News.
“An outstanding debt owed by the U.K. to Tehran will be transferred to the Central Bank of Iran in the coming days. The payment ... has nothing to do with  [TGT]’s  case ” Hamid Baeedinejad wrote on his Telegram channel.
 Zaghari-Ratcliffe  was detained in April 2016 in Tehran as  she  tried to leave Iran after a visit with  her  two-year-old daughter.
 She  was sentenced to five years in prison after an Iranian court convicted  her  of plotting to overthrow the clerical establishment.  She  denies the charges  and Britain has called for  her  release. Iran does not recognize dual citizenship for its nationals.
The Telegraph newspaper reported on Thursday that Britain was working on a plan to pay Iran the debt  as part of efforts to secure the release of  Zaghari-Ratcliffe .
 Zaghari-Ratcliffe  is a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation  a charity organization that is independent of Thomson Reuters.  It  operates independently of Reuters News.