The former Prime Minister said Sir Gavin Williamson wouldn't allow the £400milllion deal.
Sir Gavin Williamson blocked a £400 million deal to bring Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe home from Iran five years before she was released on the basis the money could be used by Hezbollah, Boris Johnson has said. The former prime minister claimed that, in 2017, he reached an agreement paving the way for the UK national's release in return for money owed by Britain to Tehran since the 1970s.
The former prime minister also revealed that, before the deal had been sanctioned by other relevant departments , he saw Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe's family at the embassy and suggested that progress had been made. He said: 'Without over-promising, I told them that we had begun the process - and I believed that we had.' Johnson claimed when he returned, Sir Gavin refused and said 'I won't send money to Hezbollah so they can buy weapons to kill our boys.
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