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Britain’s Hunt in Iran to go over nuclear deal, Yemen, detainees: state TV

DUBAI (Reuters) – British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt discussed not able to the 2015 nuclear deal, the conflict in Yemen along with other issues in meetings with Iranian authorities in Tehran on Monday, Iranian state media reported.

Hunt’s office also asserted that in the trip – his first to Iran as foreign minister – he would press Iran on its human rights record and demand the immediate release of detained British-Iranian dual nationals where you can find humanitarian grounds to accomplish this. Iranian media made no reference to this.

U.S. President Mr . trump abandoned the nuclear provide May and Washington has reimposed sanctions on Iran to push Tehran to drop its ballistic missile programs, further curb its nuclear work and limit its support for proxy militias from Syria to Lebanon and Yemen.

Other signatories on the deal – europe, France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China – are already trying to salvage it. Iran has warned it would scrap the accord if ever the EU fails to preserve its economic advantages of U.S. pressure.

“The Europeans should accelerate their efforts to save the deal…We have been ready for all scenarios, together with a get back to pre-deal era,” the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, told Hunt, Iranian state television reported.

Hunt said Britain was dedicated to the nuclear deal and discussed European efforts to help keep nuclear-related sanctions relief, Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported.

“The Iran nuclear deal remains a significant element of stability in the centre East by eliminating the threat of an nuclear Iran. It takes Totally compliance though to thrive,” Hunt said from a statement killing the visit.

SPEEDING UP

Hunt and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif also discussed the necessity to accelerate efforts to absolve the conflict in Yemen, wherein a Saudi-backed coalition continues to be battling Iran-aligned Houthi rebels for pretty much 4 years.

“It’s a part of the world and that is frankly a tinderbox and thus a lot of things will go wrong here. And Iran has become the big players and we are very, very keen to maneuver towards peace in Yemen, that’s our most important presently,” Hunt told reporters, according to BBC.

In comments prior to meetings, Hunt also mentioned

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a task manager while using the Thomson Reuters Foundation who has been arrested in April 2016 in Tehran as she headed into Britain together daughter, now aged four, after a family visit.

“We have now the truth of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe as well as other internationals here, who are imprisonment and shouldn’t be, we want to buy them home. So, there’s a lot to discuss,” Hunt said.

Zaghari-Ratcliffe was in prison for plotting to overthrow Iran’s clerical establishment, a cost denied by her family and also the Foundation, a charity organization that is outside of Thomson Reuters and operates independently of Reuters News.

There was not immediate mention of any Iranian response regarding to her case.

(Reporting by Kylie MacLellan working in london; Writing by Parisa Hafezi, Editing by Angus MacSwan)

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