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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori could be free in days

Richard Ratcliffe and his daughter Gabriella holding signs and a picture of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Parliament Square, London last year.
Richard Ratcliffe and his daughter Gabriella holding signs and a picture of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Parliament Square, London last year. Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/PA

British Iranian dual nationals Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori could be freed and allowed to return to London within days under a deal in which the UK agrees to repay a £400m debt and release an Iranian prisoner.

Zaghari-Ratcliffe has for months been at her parent’s home in Tehran awaiting news of whether she would have to serve a further one-year sentence in Iran handed down on top of the five years she had already served.

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