Latest updates: family embracing new reality after being reunited with Zaghari-Ratcliffe in the early hours of this morning
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Good morning. And for once it is. In the news industry all too often we end up as purveyors of gloom and misery, but the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori yesterday is a story that that has brought delight to people all across the country (and, God knows, we need it).
Rebecca Ratcliffe, Nazanin’s sister-in-law, has been giving interviews this morning and she told Good Morning Britain that seeing the film of Nazanin being reunited with her family in the early hours this morning was overwhelming.
Seeing that footage of her touching down in the arms of Richard and Gabriella was just really overwhelming. It feels a little bit like … Christmas morning, waiting for Santa and then Santa finally arriving.
And Gabriella slept in between Richard and Jasmine last night for the first time in six years. So a very special moment.
I think they’re probably all a bit tired and overwhelmed. But he was certainly very buoyant …
He pointed out that today’s 17 March. And six years ago, on 17 March, Nazanin flew out [to Iran, where she was arrested]. So there is a certain amount of symmetry in his story.
