Thousands track Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's Government-chartered flight back home after six-year Iran prison ordeal

Thousands of people across the world have been tracking Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's Government-chartered flight back to her family in the UK following a six year ordeal locked up in an Iranian prison. As many as 20,000 people at one time were tracing the journey of her flight home on Wednesday evening, where it is set to land in Brize Norton, West Oxfordshire.

With tens of thousands of eyes watching her flight's journey, it became the most tracked flight in the world on Wednesday evening, according to Flight Radar. It took off from Muscat shortly after 9pm and was set to touch down in the UK at around 1am.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is returning back to her family on British soil after her six-year ordeal in Iran was brought to an end, as the UK Government settled an outstanding £400 million debt owed to the regime in Tehran. Her husband Richard Ratcliffe, who fought a tenacious battle to secure her release, said it meant “we can stop being a moment in history and start being a normal family again”.

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The British-Iranian mother is returning to Britain, along with a second dual national, Anoosheh Ashoori. A third British detainee, Morad Tahbaz, has been released from prison on furlough. Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been detained on security charges by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard at Imam Khomeini airport after a holiday visit to Iran, where she hoped to introduced her daughter Gabriella to her parents.

Mr Ashoori has been in prison for almost five years while Mr Tahbaz has been held for four. Their release follows months of intensive diplomatic negotiations between London and Tehran.

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said: “We have the deepest admiration for