Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Ashoori back in Britain after Iran deal

By DANICA KIRKA and JON GAMBRELL
Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — Two British citizens who had been jailed in Iran for more than five years have returned to Britain after the U.K. settled a decades-old debt to Iran. Charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and retired civil engineer Anoosheh Ashoori hugged their families after their arrival at a British military base early Thursday. They had been released in Iran on Wednesday, and the British government said a third detainee, Morad Tahbaz, was furloughed as part of the same deal. The breakthrough was reached as world leaders try to negotiate the return of both Iran and the U.S. to an international agreement designed to limit Tehran’s nuclear enrichment program.