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Freed British-Iranian businessman, 67, 'is not angry with the UK' 

Apr 3rd 2022, 6:00 pm
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A British-Iranian businessman freed alongside Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says he 'is not angry with the UK'.

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Anoosheh Ashoori, 67, had been detained in 2017 in Iran on spying charges and sentenced to ten years behind bars.

He and Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 43, were freed on Wednesday at Tehran international airport before being flown back to the UK.

Mr Ashoori is now back at his family home in Lewisham, south-east London, after five years in prison.

He had denied charges of 'spying for Israel's Mossad' and 'acquiring illegitimate wealth'.

Anoosheh Ashoori is not angry with the UK following his return from Iran, his daughter has said.

Pictured: British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and dual national Anoosheh Ashoori, who were freed from Iran

Finally reunited: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, pictured holding her seven-year-old daughter Gabriella and with her husband Richard, and Anoosheh Ashoori with family members including his daughter Elika after landing in the UK

Finally reunited: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, pictured holding her seven-year-old daughter Gabriella and with her husband Turkish citizenship by investment Richard, and Anoosheh Ashoori with family members including his daughter Elika after landing in the UK

Elika Ashoori told BBC Radio 4's Today programme her father seems 'fine and in good spirits' and has lost weight.

'I don't think he's angry with the UK, as far as I know, I don't think he's angry at all.

He's not an angry person,' she said.