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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jessica Elgot Chief political correspondent

‘They can’t stop hugging’: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s reunion with her daughter

A picture tweeted by Tulip Siddiq of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and daughter Gabriella making pizza.
A picture tweeted by Tulip Siddiq of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her daughter, Gabriella,making pizza. Photograph: Rebecca Ratcliffe

Even as she entered the airport clutching her British passport for the first time in six years, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe said she could not believe she was finally about to return home to her husband and daughter.

The last moments of her ordeal in Iran, where she had been held by the regime, in effect as a hostage, on trumped-up charges, were far from straightforward and fraught with anxieties.

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