Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been detained in Iran for nearly six years, and Anoosheh Ashouri, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of spying for Israel, are at the airport in Tehran and have been allowed to fly back to Britain.
Their lawyer Hojjat Kermani confirms to Reuters that the two UK-Iran dual nationals have been granted permission to leave.
Lawmaker Tulip Siddiq later confirms that Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been allowed to leave.
“Nazanin is at the airport in Tehran and on her way home,” Siddiq writes.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had confirmed earlier that a negotiating team was at work in Tehran.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been detained in Iran for almost six years, but was given back her British passport over the weekend.
She served five years in prison after being taken into custody at Tehran’s airport in April 2016. She was released in 2021 and then convicted of plotting the overthrow of Iran’s government, a charge that she, her supporters and rights groups deny.
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