The UK government confirmed Iran has released dual nationals Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anousheh Ashouri after years of detention Read Full Article at RT.com
Two British-Iranian citizens accused of spying and plotting regime change let go
The UK government has secured the release of two prisoners, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anousheh Ashouri, after London reportedly paid a long-standing debt of nearly £400 million to Tehran on Tuesday. The payment was related to the sale of battle tanks to the Shah prior to the Islamic Revolution in 1979, a deal London failed to honor after the Shah’s government was replaced by that of Ayatollah Khomeini.
After spending nearly six years in prison, Zaghari-Ratcliffe has boarded a plane in Tehran bound for Muscat, from whence she will fly to Oxfordshire on a jet chartered by the UK government. Her passport was returned to her over the weekend, according to her family’s lawyer Hojjat Kermani, and Tehran confirmed both she and Ashouri have been released.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a former Reuters project manager, was arrested in April 2016 on charges of “plotting to overthrow the Islamic regime.” After spending most of her sentence in Evin prison in Tehran, she was released in March 2020 to serve the rest under house arrest during the Covid-19 pandemic and spent the following two years confined to her parents’ home with an electronic ankle monitor. However, upon her expected release from house arrest last March, she was subsequently summoned to court and convicted of “spreading propaganda against the regime.”
Ashouri was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on charges of spying for Israel and another two years for “acquiring illegitimate wealth”. However, the court took pity on him due to his “age and physical condition,” according to judiciary spokesman Zabihollah Khodayian, letting him go ahead of schedule.
A third dual national, Morad Tahbaz, was released from prison on furlough but his departure from Iran has not yet been secured.
While neither Tehran nor London has directly confirmed the payment of the debt was directly related to the prisoners’ release, state media have previously claimed they would be released after the sum originally paid to British military contractor International Military Services Ltd. was turned over. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss credited “tenacious and creative British diplomacy” for the pair’s release, citing “years of hard work and dedication by our brilliant diplomats,” in particular “intensive efforts over the past six months.”
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