Deputy FM: UK Attempts to blackmail Iran Never work

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Publish Date: 19:18 - 14 August 2021
Saturday, 14 August 2021 (YJC)_ Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Britain for taking Iran’s money hostage for releasing prisoners.

Deputy FM: UK Attempts to blackmail Iran Never workIranian Deputy Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araqchi criticized Britain for taking Iran’s money hostage for releasing prisoners.

In a tweet on Saturday, he reacted to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's latest tweet and lashed out at Britain for taking Iran’s money hostage for releasing prisoners.

“UK tries to blackmail Iran by taking our OWN money- illegally kept for more than 40 years- hostage in exchange for prisoners,” he wrote while adding that “This is never going to work. We still have a deal.”

“Time for UK to do right thing and stop letting US sabotage humanitarian exchange," Araqchi added.

Boris Johnson in a tweet on Friday demanded the release of one of the security convicts, Anousheh Ashouri.

Previously, Araghchi had responded British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab’s demand that Iran's new President Seyed Ebrahim Rayeesi release Ashouri -- a British-Iranian dual national on the fourth anniversary of his arrest in Tehran.

Britain owes Iran roughly 400 million pounds for Chieftain tanks, which it sold to Tehran in the 1970s but never delivered.

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