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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on plane out of Iran
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is on a aircraft out of Iran and will arrive lower back in the UK nowadays, the overseas secretary says Photograph: Nazanin Zaghari -Ratcliffe
Andrew Sparrow
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Wed 16 Mar 2022 13.42 GMTFirst published on Wed sixteen Mar 2022 09.Eleven GMT
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20m agoNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe now inside the air flying domestic, her MP well-knownshows
25m agoNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anousheh Ashoori will go back to UK nowadays, Liz Truss confirms
1h agoNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anousheh Ashoori have left Iran, Reuters reports, mentioning supply close to households
2h agoIran's judiciary confirms launch of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
2h agoUK has settled £400m debt owed to Iran, Iranian country media reports
3h agoNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe passed over to British crew at Tehran airport and leaving Iran nowadays, Iranian kingdom media reports
4h agoNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori launched with the aid of Iranians
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe exceeded over to British crew at Tehran airport and leaving Iran today, Iranian kingdom media reports
This is from Reuters.
British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been exceeded over to a British group at Tehran’s International Imam Khomeini airport and he or she is leaving Iran on Wednesday, Iranian state media mentioned.
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Boris Johnson has now tweeted about the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori.
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13:27
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe now within the air flying domestic, her MP famous
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has now in the air flying domestic, her MP, Tulip Siddiq, has discovered.
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anousheh Ashoori will return to UK today, Liz Truss confirms
Liz Truss, the foreign secretary, has showed that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anousheh Ashoori will return to the United Kingdom.
And Morad Tahbaz has been launched on furlough, she says.
Updated at 1.23pm GMT
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This is from John Simpson, the BBC world affairs editor, on the discharge of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
Simpson is referring specially to a notorious blunders made through Boris Johnson while he become overseas secretary, when he wrongly told MPs that Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been in Iran teaching journalism whilst she changed into detained. The remark become noted by the Iranians as evidence strengthening the case for her imprisonment. Arguably the Iranians did no longer need any incitement to detain Zaghhari-Ratcliffe further, but no longer even Johnson’s most loyal supporters might declare that his remark made things any higher.
Boris Johnson ‘mistake’ ought to damage case for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, say circle of relatives
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Boris Johnson is now in Saudi Arabia.
Here is the readout No 10 issued from his meeting earlier with the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed. Downing Street readouts from bilaterals are notoriously opaque, and from this it's miles not possible to inform whether or not or no longer the meeting changed into extremely efficient, a complete waste of time, or some thing inbetween.
The high minister set out his deep issues approximately the chaos unleashed with the aid of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, and careworn the significance of working together to improve stability in the worldwide electricity market.
The leaders welcomed the longstanding partnership between our international locations and mentioned opportunities to boom collaboration among the UK and UAE on energy safety, inexperienced era, and alternate.
They also agreed on the need to strengthen our strong security, defence and intelligence cooperation in the face of growing international threats, together with from the Houthis in Yemen.
Boris Johnson arriving at Riyadh Airport in Saudi Arabia.
Boris Johnson arriving at Riyadh airport in Saudi Arabia. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA
Updated at 1.16pm GMT
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12:41
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe will land in the UK simply after 10.30pm this night, in keeping with the Times’ Ben Clatworthy.
Updated at 12.45pm GMT
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Reuters has also snapped this.
THIRD BRITISH-IRANIAN MORAD TAHBAZ FREED FROM IRAN JAIL ON FURLOUGH - IRNA
The Irna is the Islamic Repubic News Agency.
Tahbaz, a British-American businessman born in Hammersmith, London, who also has Iranian citizenship. As my colleague Patrick Wintour writes, Tahbaz, a conservationist, became sentenced along side eight others to ten years in jail in November 2019 for “contacts with the USA enemy government”. The British foreign secretary, Liz Truss, has tweeted often in help of his innocence, an acknowledgement that he is a British consular case.
Updated at 1.17pm GMT
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According to Reuters, nation media in Iran at the moment are reporting that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anousheh Ashoori have left the united states.
Updated at 1.24pm GMT
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12:29
Boris Johnson has arrived in Saudi Arabia, the Press Association’s Sam Blewett reviews.
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In the Commons Raab was asked by the Labour MP Matt Western approximately Boris Johnson’s links to outstanding Russians, and “what first attracted the high minister” to billionaire oligarchs? In reply, Raab stated Johnson was “a totally social character”.
Updated at 12.31pm GMT
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1h ago
12:25
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anousheh Ashoori have left Iran, Reuters reports, bringing up supply close to households
This is from Reuters.
Detained British-Iranians Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anousheh Ashoori have left Iran after years in prison inside the Islamic Republic, a source close to their families informed Reuters.
Updated at 1.24pm GMT
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Blackford says this example highlights wider troubles with the government’s reaction to the refugee disaster.
Raab says the government is making plans for the arrival of 100,000 Ukrainian children inside the UK.
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Back at PMQs Ian Blackford, the SNP leader at Westminster, says there are 48 orphans from Ukraine who've been provided sanctuary in Scotland. But the Home Office won’t clear the paperwork. Will Raab intrude?
Raab says the authorities wants to assist. But this isn't always about paperwork. It is ready safeguarding, he says.
Updated at 12.25pm GMT
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12:17
Iran's judiciary confirms release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
Reuters has just issued this snap.
IRAN’S JUDICIARY CONFIRMS THE RELEASE OF BRITISH-IRANIAN NAZANIN ZAGHARI-RATCLIFFE AFTER YEARS OF DETENTION
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Rayner says there's a gasoline crisis. The government isn't assisting with the cost of residing. It has left out the safety of the British people. And they partied at some stage in lockdown.
Raab describes the sanctions imposed on Russia, and accuses Rayner of just being in a “social media echo chamber”.
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