FREED Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe beams alongside her husband and daughter in their first family selfie for six years.
The former British hostage, 44, took a smiling selfie with daughter Gabriella, seven, and husband Richard, 44, in a field of daffodils.
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Freed Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe beams in a family photo Credit: PA 7
Daughter Gabriella. seven, was just a baby when they last took family photos Credit: EPA 7
The family were reunited today after six years Credit: AFP
Their last photos taken before Nazanin was jailed in Iran in 2016 were when Gabriella was just a baby.
Her MP Tulip Siddiq shared the new family photo and wrote: "So lovely to have uplifting conversations with Richard and Nazanin today."
Gabriella cried out "Mummy! as she spotted her for the first time after she was flown home this morning.
She ran into her mum's arms, leaving onlookers fighting back tears, and asked: "Is that mummy?"
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Nazanin disembarked from a chartered jet at RAF Brize Norton, Oxon, at the end of her six years of Iran jail hell today.
She was joined on the tarmac by fellow freed detainee Anoosheh Ashoori, who was serving a four-year jail term in Tehran on spying charges - which he denies.
The ecstatic family appeared from behind a privacy screen after composing themselves and posed for pictures.
Nazanin tenderly kissed and stroked her only child's hair - whom she has not seen or touched for three years - and hugged her.
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During one tender cuddle, Gabriella told her mum: "You smell nice."
Her mum laughed, hugged her again and said: "Do I smell nice? I haven't had a shower for 24 hours. Is that OK?"
And she told her husband "Get the kettle on!" in her first phone call since being freed.
Nazanin's breakthrough release came as ministers settled an historic ￡400million debt over a cancelled tank contract dating back to the 1970s by agreeing a humanitarian aid package, which may include Covid vaccines.
Gabriella, who was allowed to visit her mum in Iran in 2018, had earlier picked out the toys she wanted to take on the welcome home trip.
And Richard — who last year spent 21 days on hunger strike campaigning for her release — joked the family home in Hampstead, North London, would need a serious tidy-up
He said: “The first thing she wanted was for me to make her a cup of tea, so we’ll 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.
“This has been a cruel experience in some ways but also an exposure to such a level of kindness and care from all walks of life.
“I think it is going to be the beginning of a new life, a normal life, and hopefully a happy family.”
And cuddling his daughter yesterday, Richard said he could not wait to “stop being a moment in history and start being a normal family again”.
He added: “We can’t take back the time that’s gone but we live in the future, not the past. We’ll take it one day at a time. It’s going to be the beginning of a new life.”
Nazanin was arrested in 2016 while on holiday in Tehran and convicted of trumped up charges of plotting to overthrow the government.
She endured mental torment and physical hardship alongside killers and cut-throats in Tehran’s grim Evin Prison for five years and served another year under house arrest.
After months of secret talks, ministers agreed that the cancelled tank order has been symbolically tied to the release of several dual nationals.
Ruthless rulers used her as a pawn as they haggled for the return of cash paid for 1,500 Chieftain tanks, which Britain refused to deliver after Iran was seized by Islamists in 1979.
Because Iran is subject to international sanctions, Britain did not pay the debt with cash.
Ms Truss said the funds “will be ring-fenced solely for the purchase of humanitarian goods” — and stressed it did not break any international sanctions rules.
Sources have suggested the cash could go towards Iran’s floundering vaccine rollout.
Ms Truss — the fifth Foreign Secretary to have worked on the case — suggested the new regime in Iran had helped push the talks forward in the last year.
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She said: “The agonies they endured must never happen again.
“They have been through an appalling ordeal. I cannot imagine what it would be like to be without my family, my mother, for so long.”
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe embraces her daughter Gabriella during an emotional reunion Credit: Instagram 7
Nazanin holding her daughter Gabriella tight Credit: Simon Dawson / No10 Downing Street 7
The family reunited at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire at around 1am 7
Nazanin spent six years detained in Iran but is finally back in the UK