Breaking News - Nazanin

Such good news for once!
I was pleased to see that Oman helped with negotiating her release, and that she was flown out of Iran on a private plane belonging to the Sultan.
We lived in Oman for many years and have very fond memories of both country and people.

It's wonderful that Nazanin is home. However, with regard to the payment made, there was a story going round Tehran when I lived there that when Jim Callaghan, PM at the time, visited Tehran he was presented with a list of money owed by Iran to UK companies with a request that these monies be paid without further delay.

So pleased to see this family are back together again. It has been such a long time for them all.

Now the hard part starts. Both will have been so changed psychologically, and Nazanin will have health problems.The release of the hostage and the reunification of the family is often where the hard work starts all over again. I hope they survive it.

I read somewhere (think it was Allison Pearson in the Telegraph) that Gabriella hasn’t had her first hair cut yet, she was ‘waiting till Mummy comes home’.

M0nica

Now the hard part starts. Both will have been so changed psychologically, and Nazanin will have health problems.The release of the hostage and the reunification of the family is often where the hard work starts all over again. I hope they survive it.

I understand that over the past years they have all been in contact by telephone and Skype. It’s a different situation to the Beirut hostages (Brian Keenan etc) when there was no word from them for five or six years. The Radcliffe situation is very sad but at least they could talk to one another.

That has nothing to do with it. Talking or not she has had all the mental and physical stress of her imprisonment and he has been over here, keeping her name in the news, campaigning. This ordeal =, which has lasted six years will deeply affect all three of them.

One MP who had particularly been prominent in campaigning for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s release, Tulip Siddiq, thanked all of those involved. She made a light-hearted comment that attracted laugher on all sides of the House when she said that Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband, Richard, had “set the bar high for all husbands”.

Richard Ratcliffe is an accountant, and as the wife of an accountant I can vouch for the fact that they are not as boring as they're made out to be and can be very good husbands.

I do wish the press would leave them alone now. The three of them need private time with no intrusions.

I agree, I hope the marriage survives.