NAZANIN Zaghari-Ratcliffe has finally been FREED by Iran and will head back 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 a bargaining chip in haggling over a debt Britain owed Iran for cancelling an order of 1,500 tanks in 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.
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.
“And he said to me that past prisoners from Evin prison in Tehran have gone to a third country, usually maybe to Oman, or to another country, where a prisoner is handed over and then made their way over to whichever the country of origin is, whether it’s Britain or Australia or America.”
Husband Richard spent 21 days on hunger strike last year to highlight his wife’s desperate plight.
Anoosheh Ashoori was also serving a four-year jail term in Tehran on spying charges, which he denies.
