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British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson meets Iran's President

Johnson met with Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran's nuclear program, earlier Sunday

Boris Johnson, Hassan Rouhani

Boris Johnson with Iran's President Hassan Rouhani

AP | PTI Tehran
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has met with President Hassan Rouhani on the second of his two-day visit to Iran.

No details of today's meeting were immediately available. He had been expected to discuss the fate of detained dual national, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who is serving a five- year prison sentence for allegedly plotting against Iran's government.

Her husband says she faces trial on new charges Sunday that carry the possibility of an additional 16-years imprisonment, but Iranian judiciary spokesman Gholamhosein Mohseni Ejehi said last month that her verdict has been finalised.

London is considering repaying Tehran some 400 million pounds from a pre-1979 arms deal. Both sides say the money isn't related to Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
 
Johnson met with Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran's nuclear program, earlier Sunday.

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First Published: Dec 10 2017 | 4:32 PM IST

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