when the five year sentence ended but it does now look, and everyone is crossing fingers and toes, that this is at an end, the ordeal is over and they will be on their way home shortly. over and they will be on their way home shortly- over and they will be on their way home shortly. let s hope so, thank ou ve home shortly. let s hope so, thank you very much. home shortly. let s hope so, thank you very much, caroline. nick eardley is our political correspondent at westminster. nick, we don t know the politics yet behind this, but what was said at prime minister s questions this lunchtime? not a great deal about the specifics of this, victoria. the government is very reluctant to talk about this until nazanin is in the air. i don t think it is going to change until the government is absolutely certain that this has happened and mrs zaghari ratcliffe has been freed by iran. radio silence, really, from the government on the specifics of this, not confirming those reports that you hear
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passport this week. it s been reported that iranian state media said the uk government paid an outstanding debt to tehran ahead of the release. 0ur diplomatic correspondent caroline hawley has more. it is almost six years since they were last together as a family. now, barring any last minute hitches, a reunion is at last imminent. this was the moment, in april 2016, when nazanin zaghari ratcliffe was arrested at tehran airport where she was trying to leave the country trying to get back to visit her parents. now she is back at the airport with fellow british national anoosheh ashoori, who has also spent years injail. it is anoosheh ashoori, who has also spent ears in “ail. , anoosheh ashoori, who has also spent years in jail- years in jail. it is quite an emotional years in jail. it is quite an emotional day years in jail. it is quite an emotional day today, - years in jail. it is quite an - emotional day today, definitely feels like we are on the home run now, but until she lea
what changed? i so, caroline, what has happened, what changed? so, caroline, what has happened, what changed? ithink, brutally, for iran, this what changed? ithink, brutally, for iran. this was what changed? ithink, brutally, for iran, this was always what changed? ithink, brutally, for iran, this was always a what changed? ithink, brutally, for iran, this was always a transaction. | iran, this was always a transaction. anoosheh ashoori, a 68 year old retired engineer and nazanin zaghari ratcliffe, theirfamilies zaghari ratcliffe, their families always said zaghari ratcliffe, theirfamilies always said were being held hostage, being held as pawns, bargaining chips, largely over this debt, £400 million or thereabouts that britain has owed for decades and never found a way to pay. now the iranian state media is saying $530 million have been paid to iran, so i think this is what has unlocked it and this is what the families have said all along. she will not be released, nazanin wil