After years in jail, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe returns to Britain
A debt is settled, and prisoners of Iran are released
ON MARCH 16TH Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe left Tehran in a jet of the Royal Air Force of Oman, and after a changeover in Muscat, landed at RAF Brize Norton, an air base in Oxfordshire, shortly after midnight. Waiting for her were her husband Richard and seven-year-old daughter Gabriella. The first thing she would want was for him to make her a cup of tea, he told reporters; the house would need tidying, too.
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