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

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

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.