Iran’s defense minister, Brig. Gen. Amir Hatami, said March 23 that the UK government should “act with practicality” in delivering an outstanding payment of 400 million pounds ($551 million) to the Islamic Republic.
The debt has to do with an undelivered package of hundreds of British Chieftain tanks and armored vehicles ordered by the Shah of Iran before he was brought down in the country’s 1979 revolution.
