The UK government was questioned what “practical steps” it’s taking to deter future politically motivated hostage-taking after it paid a historic debt to Iran “in parallel” with the release of British-Iranians Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori on Wednesday. Labour former minister Hilary Benn said the payment and the release of the detainees were”always sequential” in the eyes of the Iranian regime, and Conservative chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee Tom Tugendhat reminded the government of a precedent where the regime took more hostages after receiving ransom from the United States and urged the government to make sure the fund is not used to purchase weapons. Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Ashoori, imprisoned and detained in Iran since 2016 and 2019, respectively, were allowed to leave the country on Wednesday after negotiations between the UK and the Iranian regime. The duo was flown to the Gulf state of Oman, which has been closely involved in the behind-the-scenes negotiations to …