Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori reunited with loved ones after years of a “long and cruel separation”

The mother-of-one, whose husband Richard has long campaigned for her release, left Iran with fellow British-Iranian Anoosheh Ashoori, 67, on Wednesday after their release was secured.

Sharing photographs from the flight on Twitter Stephanie Al-Qaq, director for the Middle East and North Africa at the Foreign Office, said there was “relief and joy” as the British-Iranians and officials left Tehran.

We look at a round up of the images that capture their emotional return to Britain.