After Years In Iran, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori Were Reunited With Their Families

After Years In Iran, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori Were Reunited With Their Families

After years of captivity in Iran, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori have been reunited with their families in the United Kingdom.

In the early hours of Thursday, the British-Iranian nationals were greeted by their loved ones at RAF Brize Norton.

Gabriella, Mrs Zaghari-seven-year-old Ratcliffe's daughter, ran forward to hug her mother, whom she hadn't seen in years.

Elika Ashoori, Mr Ashoori's daughter, expressed her joy upon seeing her father and shared a video of the two arriving.

"Is that mummy?" Gabriella was heard asking. before her mother descended the plane's stairwell at the Oxfordshire airport.

Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 43, and Mr Ashoori, 67, were eventually allowed to leave Tehran on Wednesday after months of discussions.

The couple's departure from Iran had been questionable until the last minute, but they were in excellent spirits, according to UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss.

Gabriella had asked MP Tulip Siddiq if her father Richard was "pulling her leg" about her mother's return.

"My heart just broke," she explained, adding that when she told Gabriella, she immediately began playing the piano and singing.

Along with her husband Richard Ratcliffe and Liz Truss, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe looks at her 7-year-old daughter Gabriella.

"A young child has finally had her mummy and daddy back," Richard Ratcliffe's sister Rebecca wrote beside a photo of the family.

Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been incarcerated for six years after being accused of attempting to topple the Iranian government in 2016.

On charges of government promotion, she was sentenced to another year in prison and a one-year travel ban in April of last year.

Anoosheh Ashoori and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe return to RAF Brize Norton.

Mr. Ashoori, a retired civil engineer, was arrested in 2017 and sentenced to ten years in prison on spying accusations.

Both have rejected the charges repeatedly and vehemently.

Their release came after the UK paid a nearly £400 million debt to Iran dating back to the 1970s, when Iran ordered British tanks and armored vehicles. Following the Iranian revolution in 1979, the UK cancelled the deal, and Iran claimed a refund for the vehicles that had not been delivered.

Ms Truss termed the debt "legitimate" on Wednesday, describing it as "parallel concerns in our bilateral relationship [with Iran]" with the detainees.

She stated that the funds will be provided in accordance with Iranian sanctions and would be earmarked for humanitarian causes.

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