British-Iranian Mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe s Plane Has Left Oman And Is On Its Way To The UK After Earlier Leaving Tehran Following Nearly six Years Of Hell In Detention In Iran As She Prepares To Be Reunited With Her Family In Britain Tonight

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British-Iranian mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's plane has left Oman and is on its way to the UK after earlier leaving Tehran following nearly 'six years of hell' in detention in Iran as she prepares to be reunited with her family in Britain tonight.
Her husband Richard Ratcliffe said he was 'deeply grateful' for her release and that he and their daughter Gabriella were 'looking forward to a new life'.

He said she had asked for him to make her a cup of tea on her arrival home.
Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe arrived at Muscat in Oman at about 3.30pm UK time and is now travelling to RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on a Titan Airways Boeing jet which has been chartered privately by the UK Government.
Tulip Siddiq, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's MP, confirmed that Nazanin's plane has taken off from Oman and she is due to arrive back in the UK later today. 
Tens of thousands of people are following the plane on tracking website Flightradar, with the site confirming it is the most tracked flight in the world this evening. 
She was initially set to arrive in the UK at 10.30pm but it is now believed the plane will not touch down until after midnight.

LBC radio reported that her plane has been waiting in Oman since Monday. It comes after UK officials settled a long-standing £400million debt to Tehran.
Mr Ratcliffe said: 'There will probably be a couple of days peace and quiet somewhere else, and then back here.

The first thing she wanted was for me to make her a cup of tea, so we will do (that). I think actually we were looking at the house and it needs a bit of tidying, so there might be a bit of tidying, perhaps directed by mummy.'
He added that he had been 'kept out of' discussions about the debt the UK owed Iran, which Foreign Secretary Liz Truss confirmed had been settled.
Asked by broadcasters about this, Mr Ratcliffe said: 'We have obviously been kept out of the loop on it and at various points I've said, 'look, listen, this is why she's being held, it is why it has gone on so long, and this is not our fight, please solve it'.

And until this point we have been kept out of it.' 
Charity worker Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 44, travelled to an airport in Tehran today to come home to her family in the UK along with another detained British-Iranian, Anoosheh Ashouri, according to their lawyer Hojjat Kermani. 
Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Mr Ashouri were then handed over to a British team at Tehran's International Imam Khomeini Airport.

A source close to their families later told the Reuters news agency that both had left Iran. 
Later, Badr Albusaidi, foreign minister for the Sultanate of Oman, tweeted a picture of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Mr Ashouri after they landed in Muscat.
He said: 'Nazanin and healthtopical.com Anoosheh have arrived safely in Oman. Sincere thanks for the hard work and good faith in Tehran and London that made this possible.

Soon they will be with their loved ones at home. We hope this result will bring further progress in the dialogue between the parties.' 
There had been much nervousness in Whitehall about the situation regarding Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe today despite her being freed, with sources stressing that she would not be considered free until she was actually on a plane.    
On her way home: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's plane took off at about 6pm and she's due to arrive in the UK this evening
Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe greeting dignitaries after touching down in Oman on a Royal Air Force of Oman jet this afternoon 
This FlightRadar24 graphic shows the flight path of the Titan Airways plane carrying Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe back to the UK
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Richard and Gabriella Ratcliffe meeting the MP Tulip Siddiq in the House of Commons this afternoon 
Richard Ratcliffe is seen outside his London home today with daughter Gabriella after news of the release of his wife Nazanin
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and officials from the Foreign Commonwealth and Development listen on the phone as they hear the moment that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has boarded the plane in Tehran after being detained in Iran for six years
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe with her daughter Gabriella.

Her ordeal began in 2016 when she was detained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard at Imam Khomeini airport after a holiday visit to Iran where she showed Gabriella to her parents
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Pictured: British mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe with her husband Richard Ratcliffe and their daughter Gabriella
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Mr Ratcliffe, who lives in London, said the situation had been kept 'behind closed doors', adding: 'So I don't know what's happened, I've seen briefings and so on. I'm relieved the problem has been solved.
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