‘I have discovered you can leave Evin prison but Evin prison does not quite leave you,” says Anoosheh Ashoori, the 68-year-old Iranian-British dual national released in March along with his better-known counterpart, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
A gentle, open, yet determined man, he insists he has not grown angry about his five years in an Iranian jail on ludicrous charges of spying for Israel. “I can reason with myself that anger does not solve my problems. Instead … I must look to the future. Something good has to come out of this ordeal or otherwise I will be the loser and they will have beaten me.”
