Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe Iran

British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was reunited with her loved ones in the early hours of this morning after years of a "long and cruel separation" ...

and again shouted "mummy" as her mother walked down the plane's stairs. An emotional video was shared live on Instagram by Mr Ashoori's daughter Elika as the pair disembarked the plane. Sher touched down at RAF Brize Norton at just after 1am, and a video shared on social media showed the emotional homecoming as Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe hugged and kissed her young daughter

The woman freed from six years' detention told her MP about the fraught last moments in Iran and the bliss of her return.

“She may have been detained in Iran for six years, but she’s always been a constituent of mine and a part of the community in Hampstead and Kilburn, which never gave up on her,” she said. “Richard and Gabriella have both changed a lot in the last six years, and they want to get to know each other again and make up for lost time. “Gabriella has already attached herself to her mother like an extra limb, beside herself with excitement to have both parents in the room at the same time for the first time in six years,” Siddiq said. Nazanin is undoubtedly a woman of steel, and I was amazed by how calm and composed she seemed after what must have been the most chaotic and uncertain of weeks.” Siddiq said it would take time for Zaghari-Ratcliffe to process the trauma of what had happened and to feel safe again. Right up until the last minute she was pushing back against the machinations of the Iranian authorities.”

As the charity worker is reunited with her family, there are questions over why it took Britain so long to secure her freedom.

This week Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was finally reunited with her husband and daughter in the UK after years of detention in Iran. Now comes the task of ...

And there's also the challenge of co-parenting again." "If any couple is going to survive this experience, it's them." There was the mother's guilt of not being able to care for her child. Richard, talking tenderly about Nazanin to me last year, admitted: "I don't think I can possibly understand what she's gone through." "You, I and your father will never succumb to this hurricane of fate. For husband and wife, they must learn to live with each other again. On Thursday, their first morning together after the reunion started with Richard making Nazanin a cup of tea. I was just really wishing her good luck with the flight." "It was unbearable," Nazanin said. One of her female guards used to talk loudly to her own child just outside Nazanin's cell. Earlier this week, Nazanin stepped off a plane at RAF Brize Norton. After years of detention, she and fellow British-Iranian Anoosheh Ashoori were finally coming home. Richard had no reason to believe they wouldn't be back home a couple of weeks later.

The family of Morad Tahbaz, 66, expected him to be released permanently and returned to Britain alongside Nazanin and Anoosheh Ashoori this week.

Nazanin has continued to be a member of staff ever since the day she was detained. Nazanin's life was upended, but her spirit was never broken. I'm sure she's feeling a lot less angry today than she was a week ago. While I'm sure she's happy, I can't tell where her head will be in six months. 'This was a way to get the other two on the plane in enough time and to make an excuse that he was on furlough while released and happy with his family. Tahbaz's sister, Taraneh Tahbaz, said the situation was a 'farce' as she blasted the government for failing to secure the permanent release for her brother who also has British citizenship.

A relative of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says news of her return to the UK is "absolutely mind-blowing" after six years of being detained in Iran.

she just missed out on." giving Gabriella a kiss goodnight, walking her to school, things like that... "We'll have our time to see them, but at the moment it just needs to be the three of them." Mrs Loftus added: "She could then start having a normal sort of, well the British life that she was meant to have in the first place and go to school, be with her dad. A relative of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says news of her return to the UK is "absolutely mind-blowing" after six years of being detained in Iran. She was sentenced to a further year in prison in April last year and a one-year travel ban on charges of propaganda against the government.