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Iran releases Iranian-British citizens as nuclear talks wrap up

Two Iranian-British citizens are on the way home after the United Kingdom settled a decades-old debt to Iran.
Richard Ratcliffe protests outside the Foreign Office while on hunger strike, part of an effort to lobby the UK foreign secretary to bring his wife home from detention in Iran, on Oct. 25, 2021 in London, England.

Two Iranian-British citizens who have been imprisoned in Iran were released this morning and are heading back home. Early reports were confirmed in a tweet by British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a charity worker, and Anoosheh Ashouri, an engineer, are reportedly on an airplane after departing Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran. Zaghari-Ratcliffe was detained in 2016 and Ashouri was detained in 2017. Both were charged with politically motivated crimes, according to international human rights organizations. 

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