Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe due in UK today as lawyer confirms her release from Iran

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is on her way to home and will touch down in the UK tonight after six years imprisoned in Iran, her lawyers and UK government sources have confirmed.The mother-of-one was booked on a flight to London along with British–Iranian businessman Anoosheh Ashoori, their lawyer Hojjat Kermani said.

In the House of Commons, Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Rabb said he "could not yet confirm" the release. However, Iranian state television announced Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been “handed over to the British government,” without elaborating.

Iran’s English-language broadcaster Press TV later described Zaghari-Ratcliffe as “leaving Tehran after serving jail term.”It follows days of tense negotiations between the UK Government and Tehran over their release.Her release and that of another British-Iranian prisoner, Anoosheh Ashoori, is understood to have been subject to a deal in which the UK agrees to repay a £400million debt to Iran.Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who holds duel British-Iranian citizenship, was arrested in 2016 on trumped up charges of plotting against the regime.She served five years in an Iranian prison and has spent the past year on parole at her parents’ home in Tehran in fear she could be sent back to jail at any time.On Tuesday, she was handed back her British passport and was reportedly told a flight would be “arranged for her” on Wednesday so she could rejoin her husband Richard and daughter Gabriella, seven, in Hampstead.The couple’s MP, Labour’s Tulip Siddiq tweeted on Wednesday: “Nazanin is at the airport in Tehran and on her way home.

I came into politics to make a difference, and right now I’m feeling like I have.”Earlier, during a visit to Abu Dhabi, Boris Johnson said negotiations over the