Wife of freed Iran detainee Anoosheh Ashoori calls return magical
She told BBC London: "To be able to physically touch someone that you've spent all your life with and that you haven't seen in five years - and I think it was the same for the kids - it was a deeply, deeply emotional moment.and both were met by their loved ones at RAF Brize Norton in the early hours when they arrived from Iran, via Oman.
Mr Ashoori's daughter Elika Ashoori, has spoken of her happiness at seeing her father, sharing a video of the pair's arrival.The 67-year-old finally left Tehran on Wednesday after his release was secured following months of negotiations between London and Tehran and the settling of a £400m debt from the 1970s owed by the UK to Iran for an order of tanks and armoured vehicles.
The UK cancelled the order following the Iranian revolution in 1979 and Iran demanded its money back for undelivered vehicles.
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