Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is finally FREED by Iran and is heading back to Britain six years after being thrown in jail
NAZANIN Zaghari-Ratcliffe has finally been FREED by Iran and is coming home to her family in Britain after six torturous years apart.
Following successful haggling over a £400million debt, the London mum will at last be reunited with husband Richard and daughter Gabriella in Hampstead.
Her lawyer said that both she and Anousheh Ashouri, another detained British-Iranian, were on their way to Tehran airport.
It is understood Britain did not settle the long-standing debt over a cancelled order of tanks in cash terms.
Aid worker Nazanin, 44, was arrested in 2016 and convicted of plotting to overthrow the government.
She was thrown in jail for five years and served another year under house arrest.
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It's thought she was really being held hostage as leverage in bargaining over the debt Britain owed Iran dating back to the 1970s.
A breakthrough was reached yesterday when Iran handed back her passport and officials intensified talks for her release.
Boris Johnson this morning said negotiations were going "down to the wire" but remained tight lipped to avoid jeopardising the negotiations.
Her Labour MP Tulip Siddiq said Nazanin had been waiting anxiously with her bags packed.
She told LBC: "I've been speaking to her husband regularly, Richard Ratcliffe, who, as you know, has been fighting a relentless campaign on her behalf.
Husband Richard spent 21 days on hunger strike last year to highlight his wife's desperate plight.
Piers Morgan tweeted this morning: "Thinking of this guy right now. What a day for him and his family, and what a remarkable campaign he fought for so long to ensure nobody forgot about his wife. Absolutely thrilled for you, Richard Ratcliffe."
Ms Siddiq praised Liz Truss as the only foreign secretary who "actually did something" to help Nazanin.
She said: "I've dealt with three prime ministers and five foreign secretaries, it's finally when I came to a woman who was foreign secretary who actually did something."
Anoosheh Ashoori was also serving a four-year jail term in Tehran on spying charges, which he denies.
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