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📹 Watch: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe arrives home in the UK after six years in detention in Iran

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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe will begin her first day reunited with her family “learning how to be happy again”, her husband told The Times last night

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Richard Ratcliffe, 45, said that his wife and their seven-year-old daughter Gabriella were looking forward to “the beginning of a new life” together, adding: "There’s no solace in looking backwards at the time we’ve lost"

Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 43, a British-Iranian aid worker, arrived back in the UK shortly after 1am when her flight from Muscat, Oman, landed at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire

“Is that mummy?” asks Gabriella as Zaghari-Ratcliffe walks down the steps, shortly followed by Ashoori. “That’s my dad,” Elika says excitedly, as the pair getting off the plane wave for the photographers gathered at the airbase

Soon Gabriella realises. “Mummy!” she says. “That’s mummy,” her dad confirms

🔺 Latest: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe spends first night with family in six years

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She spent her first night with her husband Richard and daughter Gabriella in six years, as they slept together in the same bed after returning to the UK

Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s sister-in-law told #Today that they were going to need some initial space to “try and work to each others rhythms”

🗣 “They’re not going to go back to where they were before. They’re never going to be a normal family. They’ve been living apart for such a long time"

🗣 "There’s an element of having these normal experiences they haven’t been able to: going swimming together, going to supermarkets, going for walks, all those things that the rest of us take for granted"