Freed Americans on flight bound for US as families hold ‘emotional call’ with president Biden – as it happened

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The Guardian's Patrick Wintour reports today's prisoner swap with Iran may be a prelude to bigger deals between the United States and one of its top global antagonists:

Soon after her release, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe remarked that freedom for a former Iranian political prisoner is never complete since those freed always recall those left behind.