1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,080 My name is Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 3 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:05,440 I am a hostage. 4 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:09,320 What they are putting me through is outrageous. 5 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 6 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:11,240 I haven't committed a crime. 7 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:15,000 I have spent nine months in solitary confinement, 8 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:18,040 spending every night away from my child. 9 00:00:18,080 --> 00:00:20,920 I've never done any propaganda against the Iranian regime. 10 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:22,760 I am not a political person. 11 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:24,200 This should end. 12 00:00:24,240 --> 00:00:26,800 I haven't done anything wrong. I need to go home. 13 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,000 This programme contains strong language 14 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:51,760 Daddy! Hello, hello! 15 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:53,160 Are you still in your pyjamas?! 16 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:54,720 Oh, hello. 17 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:56,200 Have you had your breakfast? 18 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:58,080 Yeah! Have you? Coco Cuffs. 19 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:00,680 Was it nice? Was it yummy? 20 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:03,360 OK, so are we going to get dressed? 21 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:06,120 Do you want to go and see Boris Johnson 22 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:07,720 dressed in your pyjamas? 23 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:09,040 No. No? 24 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:10,480 I think that's probably wise. 25 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:12,440 You've got to put your iPad in just in case. 26 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:14,920 We're taking a big bag of things. 27 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:18,240 I should carry that. Yeah, including scissors and knives, 28 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:20,440 so I don't think we're actually taking that. 29 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:21,880 I think you should wear... 30 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:23,360 ..what you should wear... 31 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:27,360 ..one of the dresses... Squeezy! 32 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:28,880 ..that Mummy made. Huh? 33 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:31,040 Do you want to wear one of the dresses Mummy made? 34 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:32,200 Let me know. 35 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:33,760 Yeah. Oh, fine. 36 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:35,080 Fine. 37 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:37,920 It was, oh, the elephant one. Yeah. 38 00:01:37,960 --> 00:01:39,440 NAZANIN: My darling Geesou. 39 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:44,600 You were born on the 11th of June 2014 London time 40 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:46,800 in a hospital in the north of the city. 41 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:49,040 Did you wash your face? Um... 42 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:50,320 No. Go wash your face. 43 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,160 Wash your face. Why? Why? Because you're meeting the Prime Minister. 44 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:55,400 Now, glasses. 45 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:58,400 Did you know that you spent your first hour of life 46 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:00,000 in your father's arms? 47 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:02,320 After more than two days of pain, 48 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:04,520 it was worth every second for the reward 49 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:06,560 of seeing your beautiful face. 50 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:08,000 Check again. 51 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:11,520 Your father and I were the luckiest people in the world. 52 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:14,400 It was only after your birth, 53 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:18,080 after we had to spend too long deciding when to have a child 54 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:22,320 that we realised just how we had been denying ourselves 55 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:24,200 such beautiful years. 56 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:27,560 We found them. Did you put them here secretly? No! 57 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:29,000 Put your glasses on. 58 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:32,600 I have sweet memories from the days we were together. 59 00:02:32,640 --> 00:02:37,320 You found peace in your father's arms as he sang to you lullabies. 60 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:41,480 Excited? No. No? 61 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:43,040 So there's lots and lots of people. 62 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:45,560 All you do, is everyone says who they are, and they say hello. 63 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:49,040 And then the meeting's finished because it's only half an hour. 64 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:50,600 So we really want to say, 65 00:02:50,640 --> 00:02:55,080 "Listen, how are you going to get Mummy home? What's your plan?" 66 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:56,680 Nothing. There might be. 67 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:58,760 Hopefully it's a better plan than that. 68 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:00,000 It's 22 minutes to nine. 69 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:02,440 The Prime Minister will meet Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's 70 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:03,760 husband, Richard, today. 71 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:07,360 Nazanin was jailed in Tehran in 2016. 72 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:11,040 You're going to take your daughter with you to see the Prime Minister? 73 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:12,760 That's right. Potentially a brave move. 74 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:15,400 She'll go with me, in fact, I'm taking my mum, her granny as well, 75 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:17,280 in case her concentration goes. 76 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:19,120 Good morning, Richard. 77 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:21,480 Can we get a picture of the door, please, sir. 78 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:22,920 NAZANIN: My darling daughter. 79 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:24,120 My darling Geesou. 80 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:28,240 Those sweet and beautiful days didn't last long. 81 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:35,440 A trip to Iran in 2016 when you were 22 months was one of no return. 82 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:36,600 IN PERSIAN: 83 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:07,560 NEWSREEL: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 84 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:10,000 who has dual British Iranian nationality, 85 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:12,400 was visiting family when she was detained 86 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:14,560 by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. 87 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:16,720 It's not known why she was arrested. 88 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:20,160 Her daughter, Gabriella, is still in Iran with her grandparents. 89 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:22,920 Nazanin has been held in solitary confinement 90 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:25,680 on what Iran's Revolutionary Guard says 91 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:27,960 is an issue of national security. 92 00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:33,600 I was due to meet her at the airport, 93 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:34,960 and I got a phone call 94 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,000 saying, "Listen, she hasn't caught the flight. 95 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:39,320 "Don't worry. There's just a problem with her passport. 96 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:41,560 "She'll be on a later flight." 97 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:44,400 And I didn't really listen beyond that. 98 00:05:48,280 --> 00:05:53,440 It was probably a good ten days before we found out where she was, 99 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:55,480 established who it was that that had got her, 100 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:57,040 which was the Revolutionary Guard. 101 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:00,240 And that, for me, is when the wheels fell off. 102 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:05,640 I just, you know, realised that she was sitting in solitary somewhere 103 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:07,600 and I'd done nothing about it. 104 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:29,120 She was in a windowless cell, being interrogated, blindfolded. 105 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:31,480 Interrogation. Isolation. Interrogation. Isolation. 106 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:33,600 Interrogation. Isolation. 107 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:35,520 No change of clothes. 108 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:37,400 Food that was drugged. 109 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:39,680 She was being told, "Your family have abandoned you. 110 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:41,680 "You're never going to come out of this alive." 111 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:44,280 Just, you know, just trying to break you. 112 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:46,680 Being told, "Listen, your family's in danger. 113 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:49,280 "If you don't cooperate, we're going to kill them." 114 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:57,040 Nazanin can only call from prison when her interrogators let her. 115 00:06:57,080 --> 00:06:59,320 She was supposed to call yesterday, but she didn't. 116 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:00,920 She might be about to call now. 117 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:02,160 She might be about to call now? 118 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:04,960 Yeah. This might be her now. 119 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:06,360 Azizam? 120 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:08,960 Hello? 121 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:12,560 Hello, my love. How are you? 122 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:15,840 How are you? Good. 123 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:19,080 I mean, all the better for hearing your voice, so. 124 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:20,600 So much. 125 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:25,040 Say it one more time. 126 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:31,360 Five years. 127 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:36,760 What's the crime that you've done? 128 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:38,080 What's the charge? 129 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:42,560 That's the sentence. 130 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:44,360 That's how many years for doing something. 131 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:46,360 What's the crime? 132 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:48,800 Yeah. 133 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:52,720 OK. 134 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:57,520 Yeah. 135 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:00,480 Yeah. 136 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:04,600 There is so much love for you here. 137 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:07,640 Yeah. Yeah, we have the petition. 138 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:10,960 It has 804,000 people have signed it. 139 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:12,120 I love.... 140 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:15,240 I miss you so much and love you with all my heart. 141 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:18,600 And I promise you, you will be home soon. 142 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:20,080 You be strong. 143 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:21,360 I promise. 144 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:24,480 Love you. 145 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:27,360 All right, take care. 146 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:32,520 Nazanin was sentenced to five years. 147 00:08:32,560 --> 00:08:36,520 She said that, um.... 148 00:08:36,560 --> 00:08:38,680 ..you know, she hated waking up. 149 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:40,920 When she was asleep, in her dreams, 150 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:44,200 Gabrielle was there, and then when she woke up, 151 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:47,040 she was back in the prison. 152 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:50,520 So Gabriella was on holiday with her mum. 153 00:08:50,560 --> 00:08:52,640 She was obviously at the airport travelling back 154 00:08:52,680 --> 00:08:54,680 when Nazanin got arrested, but since the arrest, 155 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:58,000 she's been stuck in Iran, and she's living with Nazanin's family. 156 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:03,280 Geesou. 157 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:04,520 Geesou, mama. 158 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:08,640 Geesou, mama. 159 00:09:08,680 --> 00:09:10,080 SHE SPEAKS IN FARSI 160 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:18,160 My darling Geesou, 161 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:21,200 my share of you is only the occasional hour 162 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:23,880 in the visiting room at Evin Prison. 163 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:32,600 How young you are to be forced to go through such a horrible experience. 164 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:36,640 But I promise you that sad, sombre days of our separation 165 00:09:36,680 --> 00:09:38,760 will be ended soon. 166 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:44,720 Give me your hand, my beautiful girl. 167 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:47,280 We will walk the rest of this path. 168 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:07,320 NEWSREEL: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was on holiday visiting her family 169 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:10,400 when she was arrested and sent to prison for five years, 170 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:13,240 accused of trying to undermine Iran's government. 171 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:15,880 She totally denied the charges of conspiring 172 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:18,680 against the Iranian state. 173 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:20,040 Sleepy girl. 174 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:22,880 Here you go. 175 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:31,040 Do you want to...play with the ipad, watch some TV, 176 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:32,320 read a story? 177 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:33,760 Alexa. 178 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:35,920 You want to do Alexa? Do you? OK. 179 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:37,680 Play with my iPad. OK, you sit down. 180 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:40,680 Mummy should be calling in a minute. 181 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:42,280 PHONE RINGS Now? 182 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:44,000 Hello? Hello, how are you? 183 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:48,040 How are you doing, my love? 184 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:51,440 I'm all right. Any news from your lawyer or not? 185 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:53,080 No, no, no, nothing. Nothing. 186 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:54,840 As if I don't exist. 187 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:56,320 Geesou read her first book. 188 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:57,600 So she was very pleased. 189 00:10:57,640 --> 00:10:58,920 She read her first book? 190 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:01,200 Yep. I Go Shopping, it was called. 191 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:07,120 It's called I Go Shopping. 192 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:09,240 As you might imagine, they go shopping 193 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:10,920 and look at things in the shop. 194 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:13,160 Oh, that's sweet. 195 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:14,600 That's adorable. 196 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:16,400 Yeah. Can you record it? 197 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:18,400 And then I can listen to it later on. 198 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:22,320 Just to see when she first started to read. How did she sound? 199 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:25,840 She was very pleased when she was able to do it without mistakes. 200 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:27,440 Oh, sweetheart. 201 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:29,400 Yeah, cause everyone is ahead of her in reading. 202 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:31,880 But that's right. Everyone's ahead of her still. 203 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:35,760 But she's ahead of many of them in many other things. 204 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:37,200 A point she made. 205 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:38,520 OK. OK. I got to go. 206 00:11:38,560 --> 00:11:40,160 I love you so much. Love you. 207 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:41,760 I love you with all my heart. 208 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:43,680 With all my heart. I promise you it will be OK. 209 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:46,120 OK. Love you. 210 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:48,720 Love you. 211 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:52,440 I love you, sweetheart. Love you. Love you. 212 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:57,560 Hello? 213 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:07,000 I'm a woman and I am a mother. 214 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:11,440 What they are putting me through is outrageous. 215 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:16,200 When this all began, I went and met with three or four 216 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:19,160 different families that had been through it all. 217 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:22,280 They were actually clearly very knowledgeable. 218 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:24,920 And he said, "Well, I think given the context 219 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:27,920 "of what's being said and if you get out within three to six months, 220 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:30,080 "you've done well." 221 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:33,840 Revolutionary Guard put out quite a few propaganda videos. 222 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:35,320 It's just nonsense. 223 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:37,920 Here's a photo of her university friends claiming they're some 224 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:39,200 MI6 group and so on. 225 00:12:44,560 --> 00:12:46,840 Bits where they've tried to dig out different things 226 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:48,840 from her personal email and posts on Facebook 227 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:51,520 and pretend they were something they weren't. 228 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,120 Boris Johnson spoke out and said... 229 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:09,600 When you look at what Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was doing, 230 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:14,760 it's just, you know, she was simply teaching people journalism, 231 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:15,880 as I understand it. 232 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:17,120 ..which wasn't true. 233 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:19,360 What the fuck did you just do there? 234 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:20,840 That was fucking outrageous. 235 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:23,800 How did you allow that? How did you enable that? 236 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:25,920 That was used by the Iranian authorities. 237 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:41,800 There was so clearly a mistake that had so clearly 238 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:43,400 had consequences for Nazanin. 239 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:04,640 I remember being really struck by the craziness of our story. 240 00:14:04,680 --> 00:14:08,800 Here you've got a mum on holiday, and they accuse her of being a spy. 241 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:10,520 I mean, of course she's not a spy. 242 00:14:10,560 --> 00:14:12,520 There's nothing going on. 243 00:14:12,560 --> 00:14:15,920 When we campaign, I've always tried to be as blunt as possible, 244 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:19,440 I'm pissed off that you've got my wife, and I want her home. 245 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:21,480 And I'm going to camp in front of your doorstep, 246 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:23,200 and I'm going to call it out. 247 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:30,000 I think it's so sad and so wrong that you should have been put, 248 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:32,560 and your wife, put in this situation. 249 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:34,600 I just wish you all the very, very best. Thank you. 250 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:37,120 NEWSREEL: Saturday, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe 251 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:41,120 began a hunger strike in protest at her continued detention. 252 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:43,480 I'm here in front of the Iranian embassy because Nazanin 253 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:44,880 has gone on hunger strike, 254 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:47,800 and I promised her that I would join her. 255 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:49,720 Yeah, I have to say, hunger strike is hard, 256 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:52,520 and this is one of the hardest day so far. 257 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:54,960 Richard, I'm a lecturer. 258 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:59,160 The Government put quite a lot of pressure on me to shut up. 259 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:01,680 The British Government essentially saying, 260 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:04,280 "Keep quiet. You're not helping your wife. 261 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:06,200 "You're making this worse." 262 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:08,960 There have been some moments where 263 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:11,000 I've really felt out of my depth. 264 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:12,560 I'm just an ordinary bloke. 265 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:17,440 Today we had comments from the Iranian Deputy Prime Minister 266 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:19,360 complaining about our hunger strike, 267 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:21,760 saying that Nazanin was not going to be released at all. 268 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:23,880 So similar to what the Interior said, 269 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:25,320 until she finished her sentence. 270 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:29,320 And also complained that I was blackmailing the Iranian authorities 271 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:30,960 by having this hunger strike. 272 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:32,680 Of course, that's entirely upside down, 273 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:35,160 but we're just the ones that are trying to find a way 274 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:36,560 to bring her home. 275 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:42,200 Partly why Nazanin was moved to go on hunger strike 276 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:45,560 is to signal, "Enough's enough, I need to come home with my daughter." 277 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:46,880 MUSICAL NOTES PLAY 278 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:50,240 Oh, is it like a piano? 279 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:51,880 When it all kicked off, 280 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:54,360 I couldn't really spend a lot of time in the flat. 281 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:56,000 It just felt too empty. 282 00:15:57,120 --> 00:15:59,040 Are you eating watermelon? 283 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:00,480 I don't think so. 284 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:02,240 Is it for sharing with Daddy? 285 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:05,320 Ah! Mm-mm-mm! 286 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:07,160 Are you being kind to your uncle? 287 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:09,640 Yeah, she said... She said she doesn't like sharing. 288 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:12,480 Yeah, Mummy always accuses Daddy of not liking sharing. 289 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:15,120 We love you. 290 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:17,600 GABRIELLA: Love you. Love you. 291 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:19,320 Love you so much. 292 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:21,160 I love you. 293 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:22,880 INTERVIEWER: Is there a scenario 294 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:25,560 where Gabriella comes home and Nazanin doesn't? 295 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:27,040 Yes, there is. 296 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:30,280 Um, it's something we've been talking about. 297 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:32,320 Yes, it'd be tough. 298 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:37,400 It's tough for Nazanin in that what gets her through the week 299 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:40,120 is seeing Gabriella twice a week. 300 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:46,400 NAZANIN: My most beautiful baby girl. 301 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:52,160 Your visits and smiles make my world brighter. 302 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:55,040 I know we have been through dark years, 303 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:57,560 perhaps the darkest of our lives, 304 00:16:57,600 --> 00:16:59,720 but we have had each other. 305 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:02,520 No-one can take us apart. 306 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:05,760 No politics, wars or even prisons. 307 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:15,040 No-one takes a mother and a baby 308 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:17,840 and thinks that's OK. 309 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:22,840 Someone said to me that there will be something. 310 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:26,720 There'll be something they want off the British Government. 311 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:29,240 And then we got that really strange message that said, 312 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:31,720 "Tell the British Government to make the agreement. 313 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:34,040 "They know... They know the agreement." 314 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:37,000 The Revolutionary Guard are doing it because they know it's a bad thing, 315 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:38,640 cos they think it'll work. 316 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:40,880 Suddenly, this is a lot darker, 317 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:42,520 a lot bigger than I appreciated. 318 00:17:47,360 --> 00:17:50,400 I dug around and came across a big, long article 319 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:53,120 written by a guy called Duncan Campbell, 320 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:55,640 a journalist back in the eighties, 321 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:59,040 all about debt that the British Government owes to Iran. 322 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:07,520 The day I first read about what was happening to you, 323 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:09,760 it immediately occurred to me, 324 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:12,080 "This has got to be about the money." 325 00:18:12,120 --> 00:18:14,040 At one stage 40 years ago, 326 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:18,760 there were 300 British military contracts under way with Iran. 327 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:22,120 700 people working, 328 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:25,040 servicing mostly that business. 329 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:26,920 NEWSREEL: Here at the factory in Leeds, 330 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:29,960 the entire production of Chieftain tanks is earmarked 331 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:31,840 for the Shah of Iran. 332 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:34,960 They're rolling off the line at the rate of five a week. 333 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,800 Nicely turned out in the Shah's own colour scheme 334 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:39,680 called Persian Drab. 335 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:44,880 The Shah wanted the new and latest tanks, 336 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:49,200 and the Ministry of Defence fell over themselves 337 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:53,120 and did a contract to sell the Shah 1,400 tanks 338 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:57,280 of an utterly advanced specification. 339 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:00,960 NEWSREEL: Britain's newest design of tank for Iran 340 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,120 will be more powerful and better protected 341 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:04,800 than any tank in the world, 342 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:07,000 with its top secret, extra tough armour. 343 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:10,560 These Chieftain battle tanks are part of a series of arms deals 344 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:15,480 with Iran that could eventually earn Britain more than £5,000 billion. 345 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:19,840 The UK had already taken £300 million from Iran 346 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:23,840 in advance payments to produce the tanks. 347 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:27,080 And then the day came. 348 00:19:27,120 --> 00:19:28,640 The Shah fell. 349 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:30,560 CAR HORNS BEEP 350 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:32,120 Khomeini took over. 351 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:38,720 The contract was cancelled. 352 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:40,600 Iran wanted the money back. 353 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:45,520 Britain wanted to hang on to that money. 354 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:49,520 Looking across the records of these papers and the deals 355 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:51,720 that were struck, 356 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:55,320 Nazanin in arrest and in prison 357 00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:59,400 is a direct result of British corruption 40 years ago. 358 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:06,400 MIKE CAREY: January '79. 359 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:08,560 The Iranian Revolution had just started. 360 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:12,280 SIRENS WAIL 361 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:14,960 It was complete chaos in Iran. 362 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,840 No-one knew what was going to happen. 363 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:20,560 I was the most junior person in the office 364 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:24,320 at the Ministry of Defence department concerned. 365 00:20:24,360 --> 00:20:25,640 Back in those days, 366 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:27,720 it was quite common practice for lunchtime, 367 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:30,120 a lot of people would go to the pub, especially on Fridays. 368 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:32,320 And I was told, "Right, you're staying in the office 369 00:20:32,360 --> 00:20:34,400 "while we go to the pub in case anybody phones." 370 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:35,800 Because you were a junior. Yeah. 371 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:39,040 Anyway, surprisingly, someone actually did ring 372 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:42,640 and on the end of the phone was the military attache 373 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:45,920 or one of his people from the Iranian embassy. 374 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:48,440 He started talking about this tank deal and said, 375 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:52,000 "We don't want the ayatollahs getting the tanks or the money, 376 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:53,800 "so everything's on hold." 377 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:56,640 And I asked him, "What do you want us to do with the money?" 378 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:59,520 And he said, "For now, nothing." 379 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:01,800 To hold on to it? Hold on to it. 380 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:04,480 And then the ayatollahs came fully into power. 381 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:06,560 And then obviously, when the Iranians discovered 382 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:08,800 that they were owed 400 million quid, unfortunately, 383 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:11,400 this when you come into the picture. 384 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:13,120 And Naz was just unfortunate 385 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:16,120 to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, I guess. 386 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:20,800 NAZANIN: I haven't committed a crime. 387 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:23,280 They have given me five years anyway. 388 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:30,360 I'm constantly told throughout the interrogation sessions, 389 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:35,360 every time anyone, any official came to prison that, 390 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:38,200 "We will not let you go until we get our money." 391 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:01,080 INDISTINCT CHATTER 392 00:22:01,120 --> 00:22:04,040 Mohammed is Nazanin's brother. 393 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:07,000 All the time Gabriella was in Iran, 394 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:09,920 I would talk to Gabriella through him. 395 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:11,640 He would have to translate 396 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,840 cos obviously Gabriella lost her English and spoken Farsi. 397 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:20,720 When the decision was for Gabriella to come back to London, 398 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:22,680 the decision was he would bring her over 399 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:25,720 because he would be the one that could help her navigate. 400 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:31,200 Hello, hello! 401 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:44,960 Should we give it today or should we keep it for you? 402 00:22:48,120 --> 00:22:49,920 THEY LAUGH 403 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:55,920 GABRIELLA: Dad? Yeah, baby? 404 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:58,120 For me, it was really important 405 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:01,360 that Gabriela came back here to start school. 406 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:03,240 OK, we need to go. Need to go. 407 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:05,280 Life does need to go on at some point. 408 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:07,800 I need to get a cab to school. It's fine. 409 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,400 Certainly at the beginning, 410 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:11,680 she regularly would say, 411 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,320 "Listen, I don't want you, Daddy. I want my granny," 412 00:23:14,360 --> 00:23:16,520 or, "I want Mummy, not Daddy." 413 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:18,600 PHONE RINGS 414 00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:58,240 Hello. How are you? 415 00:23:58,280 --> 00:23:59,600 You haven't left the house yet? 416 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:02,440 No, we're just doing our coats up. 417 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:03,720 Dad! OK. 418 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:04,840 I had a row yesterday. 419 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,280 That was a fight in the ward. Yep? 420 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:09,720 I've almost been paralysed, 421 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:13,560 and this stupid bitch started having a row 422 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,360 and somebody got involved, 423 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:19,920 and we all, like, had a huge, huge fight with her. 424 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:21,920 She just out of the blue called me... 425 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:23,800 CALL INTERRUPTED BY WARNING 426 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:29,760 Are you OK? Yeah, we're OK. We're OK. 427 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:31,600 Late for school but we're OK. 428 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:33,080 OK. I love you both. 429 00:24:33,120 --> 00:24:34,480 Love you. 430 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:39,120 I really love you. 431 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:40,920 Love you. Bye-bye. Bye. Bye. 432 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:43,040 Bye-bye. Bye-bye. 433 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:44,880 Do you want to say bye-bye? Bye-bye. 434 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:48,280 She's gone. CALL DISCONNECTS 435 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:49,880 HE CLEARS THROAT 436 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:52,640 We're so late. We are going to be late. 437 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:56,600 Certainly those first few weeks were very tough for her. 438 00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:57,880 She'd always been promised 439 00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:00,160 that she was going to come back with Mummy. 440 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,480 And that's not what happened. She came back before Mummy. 441 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:04,960 See you later! 442 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,440 DOOR CLOSES 443 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:10,000 She will ask sometimes, 444 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,040 "Why did this happen to my mummy?" 445 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:15,400 And, of course, there is no good answer. 446 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:20,280 Actually Nazanin's fate is entirely bound up in the failure 447 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:21,840 to resolve this debt. 448 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,120 REPORTER: Today, the Court of Appeals hears arguments 449 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:31,440 about a debt that the UK has to Iran in case that could perhaps be linked 450 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:33,160 to Nazanin's freedom. 451 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:35,000 REPORTER: Iranians at the Appeal Court 452 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:38,480 claiming for arms deal payments dating back to the 1970s. 453 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:42,360 The latest twist in a legal battle worth £400 million. 454 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:45,800 This case has been on for ages. 455 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,080 It was secret for a long time. 456 00:25:48,120 --> 00:25:51,280 Nazanin's held, she's been told, over this. 457 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:56,000 The guys that are holding Nazanin are a bunch of hostage takers. 458 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,440 They are threatening to take more people. 459 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:00,400 They have taken more people. 460 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:09,240 My husband was arrested in August 2017 461 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,000 when he went to Iran to visit his mother. 462 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:18,120 As he was walking along, a car pulled up and four men got out. 463 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:20,360 When he confirmed who he was, 464 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,120 they put him in a car and just covered his head with a hood. 465 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,280 That was it. 466 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:29,440 His case, as of other dual nationals, 467 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,680 may be related to this UK debt. 468 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:36,600 Obviously this is a long-running dispute between Iran and the UK. 469 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,360 Perhaps naively, we were hoping that might be sort of 470 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:41,720 instantly resolved in court and we'd get a judgment. 471 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,240 It's not about to happen. 472 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:46,640 REPORTER: In a court case in London today, 473 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:51,480 sanctions and a dispute are holding up payment for £400 million 474 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:53,160 Iran claims it's owed 475 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:56,480 for an arms deal dating back to the 1970s. 476 00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:58,640 We have no comment on that. 477 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:01,400 Until we got the court papers, 478 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:03,720 I don't think we realised quite how obstructive 479 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,280 the British Government legal strategy was. 480 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:07,520 You know, in public saying, 481 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:10,120 "We're trying to negotiate this, we're trying to solve this." 482 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:11,360 None of it's true. 483 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,680 You've got a number of innocent people who are being held hostage. 484 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:18,320 You're trying to find every legal excuse you can to block this. 485 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:22,720 An awful lot of these letters is really just making sure 486 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,880 that no-one can say they didn't know the story. 487 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:27,760 This is the letter we wrote to Boris Johnson 488 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,040 when he was Foreign Secretary in March 2018. 489 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,760 This is after we'd started getting really clear messages about 490 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:36,200 what he was being held over, the debt. 491 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:37,920 We got a response back saying... 492 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,560 ..acknowledgement of how upset Nazanin was, 493 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:43,760 saying how he cared about us, and then finally coming to the debt 494 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:45,880 and saying there's no connection. 495 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,960 We then wrote back again, clarifying that with respect, 496 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:50,840 "This isn't good enough, this is urgent. 497 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:52,240 "What have you done?" 498 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,720 Again, no acknowledgement to meet, 499 00:27:55,760 --> 00:28:00,280 but reiterating that, "There's no connection between the two issues. 500 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,400 "The government is very keen to pay 501 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:06,120 "and that we will continue to push the whole case." 502 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,920 All the government's done is deflect attention away 503 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,120 from their failure to pay the debt. 504 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,920 I'm not sure I understand what could be justified there. 505 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:22,760 REPORTER: For Gabriella Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 506 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:24,640 no ordinary day out of school. 507 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:26,360 With her father and grandmother, 508 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,200 she's just been in to see the Prime Minister. 509 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,120 REPORTER: But while she may have got a toy to take home, 510 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:34,920 her father wants some decisive progress 511 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:36,840 to help get her mother back. 512 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,480 Richard Ratcliffe said he was pleased to have had the meeting, 513 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,760 but he clearly believes the government could be pushing harder. 514 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:47,560 I wonder who's going to call. 515 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,000 PHONE RINGS 516 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:53,720 I think that.. ..is Mummy. 517 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,200 ..is Mummy. I've got it. I've got it. 518 00:28:57,880 --> 00:28:59,720 Hello. Say hello. 519 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:00,840 NAZANIN: Hello... 520 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:02,240 Want to say salam? 521 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:05,720 In a loud voice. 522 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,240 Tell Mummy, what was it this week? 523 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:21,160 What did you do? 524 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,000 Larry. Larry. 525 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:46,440 She's gone. 526 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:48,560 Y-You're OK? 527 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:49,960 Yeah, I'm OK. I'm OK. 528 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:51,520 I'm very, very nervous today. 529 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:53,560 I've got butterflies in my stomach. 530 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:55,800 It was obviously a big week for us. 531 00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,400 Uh-huh. Yeah. No, I think it went well. 532 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,600 Er, Boris Johnson was there. Dominic Raab was there. 533 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:04,280 Sometimes they try and shut down things. 534 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:06,120 So, you know, we start asking about the debt 535 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:07,880 and they won't want to talk about it. 536 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:11,520 They were open to talk about this is what's going on. 537 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:13,840 And I was pretty... 538 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:14,960 I mean, I did probe. I said, 539 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:16,840 "Listen, I know you say you want to solve it, 540 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:19,040 "but I've just been in court and I didn't see it looking 541 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:21,480 "like it was being solved at all." 542 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,000 And then the odd bit was that Boris Johnson didn't seem 543 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:25,800 to know that the court case was happening. 544 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,800 It felt quite a positive meeting in terms of the mood. 545 00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:31,320 But in terms of substance, 546 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:33,040 we weren't really told anything. 547 00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:35,920 OK. Yeah, we weren't. 548 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:37,760 How are you? How are you? 549 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:39,320 Let us hope. Yeah. 550 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:41,000 I love you so much. I've got to go. 551 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,720 CROSSTALK 552 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:46,800 Bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye. 553 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:59,080 Who would keep a mother away from her baby 554 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:01,360 for such a long time? 555 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:03,960 I am losing my faith in humanity. 556 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,920 I am losing my faith in human rights. 557 00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:10,520 I do not have any faith of the Iranian government. 558 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:14,960 I'm losing my faith in anything that I could hold on to. 559 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:28,160 REPORTER: There have been more than 4,500 confirmed cases 560 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,520 of the coronavirus in China as of Monday. 561 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:33,960 900 cases were diagnosed in the city of Wuhan. 562 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,720 Iran is the worst-hit country in the Middle East 563 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:38,280 with the new coronavirus, 564 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:43,040 with nearly 16,000 confirmed cases and over 900 deaths. 565 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,640 On Wednesday, it really started to break across Iran 566 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:51,240 and there was sort of prisoners self-declaring they'd got it. 567 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:53,960 And then we got the news that they'd run out of bleach, 568 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,960 they'd run out of disinfectant. There was no medicine. 569 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:58,960 There were stories we'd been getting about 570 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,840 different prisoners having been hospitalised. 571 00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:04,720 Nazanin said it was like, you know, a zombie movie. 572 00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,400 In an effort to curb the spread of the virus, 573 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:13,320 Iran has temporarily released 85,000 prisoners, 574 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:15,000 some political prisoners. 575 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:18,600 Some breaking news to bring you. 576 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:21,280 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been released 577 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:22,840 from prison in Iran. 578 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:26,640 Nazanin's movements will be restricted to 300 metres 579 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:28,680 from her parents' home. 580 00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:32,200 This makes her release more comparable to house arrest. 581 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:35,000 Nazanin will be required to wear an ankle tag. 582 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:42,960 Can you hear me? 583 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:44,320 Er, yes. 584 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:49,440 How are you today? 585 00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,680 I've received so many messages from people. 586 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:54,280 This is Geesou's dress. 587 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:55,960 NAZANIN SPEAKS IN FARSI 588 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,440 Yeah. 589 00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,000 INAUDIBLE 590 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,280 So... NAZANIN SPEAKS IN FARSI 591 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:08,800 No, it's a surprise! 592 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:10,120 Shall I bring it through? 593 00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,320 Bring it through in a little bit? OK? I'll call you. 594 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:13,840 I'll call you back, OK? 595 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,200 Is it a nice dress? 596 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:19,520 It's beautiful! 597 00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:21,320 Yeah! 598 00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:23,040 Do you want to stand so Mummy can see? 599 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:24,600 Do you want to stand? 600 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:26,000 There we go. 601 00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:27,160 Oh, my good... 602 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:28,640 Don't be shy. And red tights. 603 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:30,080 Mm-hm. And red tights. 604 00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:31,320 NAZANIN GASPS 605 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:33,200 Oh, my God. So I think it'll look a nice photo. 606 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:36,880 You can dress up our daughter in a very, very nice way. 607 00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:39,720 It's a little bit big for her, so she'll grow into it. 608 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:41,920 She'll grow into it, yeah. 609 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,480 So, Mummy's dresses - all oversized. 610 00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:47,800 Er... NAZANIN SIGHS 611 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:50,120 Yeah, so, sorry I interrupted you. 612 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:52,560 I hate Friday evenings. 613 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,760 Er... 614 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:56,480 It's better than being inside prison. 615 00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:58,840 Friday evenings in prison are lethal. 616 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:02,760 It has been exhausting. 617 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:04,440 Depending on which day I speak to her, 618 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:05,680 she could be happy. 619 00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:07,440 Some days, really worried. 620 00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:17,200 We've been kept in this game of cat and mouse. 621 00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:21,640 She could be coming home any time soon. 622 00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:24,440 She could be back in prison any time soon. 623 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:26,280 You know, we've got some posters. 624 00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:28,360 You can choose which one you want to hold. 625 00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:33,560 Free Anoosheh! Free Anoosheh! 626 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:36,400 Free Anoosheh! Free Anoosheh! 627 00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:39,560 Free Anoosheh! Free Anoosheh! 628 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,360 Free Anoosheh! Free Anoosheh! 629 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:45,480 Free Anoosheh! Free Anoosheh! 630 00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:47,560 Free Anoosheh! 631 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,240 Free Anoosheh! Free Anoosheh! Thank you. 632 00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:51,720 Thank you. 633 00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:53,120 Free Anoosheh! 634 00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:55,320 ELIKA: So many families have been affected 635 00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,960 by Iranian hostage-taking. 636 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:02,240 It doesn't just affect one life, it dominos. 637 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,720 It's really heartbreaking. 638 00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:08,080 The most crucial years that she has to be with her mum, 639 00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,640 she's been deprived of. 640 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:15,320 And that's not something you can reverse or take back. 641 00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:18,920 I don't know what it must feel like for a six-year-old. 642 00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,960 And the big one's going to be for me. 643 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,760 Yeah. And then I'm going to make another big one for Mummy. 644 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:26,120 The more, the better. 645 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:28,640 The less, the not better. Exactly. 646 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:31,960 NAZANIN: Yeah. Looking nice. 647 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:33,200 Hi, Mummy. 648 00:35:33,240 --> 00:35:35,400 I want to see her on that side. Hello, sweetheart! OK. 649 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:37,600 I'm going to swing it round. 650 00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:40,040 NAZANIN SPEAKS IN FARSI 651 00:35:41,720 --> 00:35:44,000 Are we going to do some decorating on the biscuits? Yeah. 652 00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:45,960 We have all these. Show these to your mum. 653 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,040 Father Christmas. And we're going to hopefully, 654 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:51,680 hopefully try and get some sent to you. Yeah. 655 00:35:51,720 --> 00:35:53,840 So you get to eat some of them. Are you? 656 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,320 Yeah, so we're going to try and ask the Foreign Office 657 00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:58,920 to see if they can take some if someone's going over. 658 00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:03,600 BEEPING Oh, that's our cookies! 659 00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:06,120 All of the things that she wants to do with me 660 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,880 when I come back is to bake. Wow, OK. 661 00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:11,120 She's really good. 662 00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:14,840 Oh, wow! That is a very special one! 663 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,400 Thank you so much, sweetheart! 664 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:20,680 Elika's going to get the penguin. 665 00:36:20,720 --> 00:36:25,480 Yay, that's my favourite! And then Mummy's going to get the... 666 00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:29,000 The Father Christmas. 667 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:34,640 When do you miss your mum the most? 668 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:39,520 At night. At night? 669 00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:41,480 Why? 670 00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:43,800 Because I cry about it. 671 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:45,160 Why do you cry? 672 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:47,640 Because I want her home. 673 00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:53,480 So... For us, it's dangerous to get too hopeful. 674 00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:55,320 We need to keep our guard up. 675 00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:58,080 It really could suddenly all get solved, 676 00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:00,000 and it could suddenly get worse. 677 00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:05,640 Hi, Foreign Secretary. How are you? 678 00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:10,360 Nazanin this morning got called by the Revolutionary Guard. 679 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:14,000 And then, at about three o'clock this afternoon, 680 00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:17,960 she was visited by two IRGC guys who handed over a court summons, 681 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,240 which said, "You need to come in court on Monday, 682 00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:21,960 "you should pack a bag because you'll be 683 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:23,960 "going to prison afterwards." 684 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:27,960 So that's obviously hit her and us pretty hard. 685 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,240 Yeah, I've had a couple of really quite dark conversations 686 00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:32,720 with her since. 687 00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:36,080 I'm sure that's a clear threat by the Revolutionary Guard, 688 00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:37,480 that we can be big and scary. 689 00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:40,960 Thank you. Thanks very much. 690 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:42,680 Bye-bye. 691 00:37:42,720 --> 00:37:43,960 It's done. 692 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,600 he just gave me half an hour of rationalisations. 693 00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:47,960 You know, "Terribly sorry." 694 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,480 Yeah, look at the Foreign Office. I mean, what have they done? 695 00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:52,600 Have they come to an understanding whereby Nazanin 696 00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:54,520 gets to serve her sentence and, at the end of it, 697 00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:55,640 she gets released? 698 00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:56,960 Has the IRGC agreed to it? 699 00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:58,120 No. 700 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:02,200 How has that changed where we were in 2016? 701 00:38:02,240 --> 00:38:03,520 Well, not one bit. 702 00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:05,960 We're in exactly the same place. 703 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,840 It's almost like we're a country of eunuchs. 704 00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:13,160 They've got Boris and there's Raab talking every week, 705 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,360 let's say, about the case and how worried they are, 706 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,720 but actually doing nothing useful to solve it. 707 00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:20,960 That's Nazanin. 708 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:24,280 She's asking me to tell you... 709 00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:25,680 Yes, she's sent me a message. 710 00:38:25,720 --> 00:38:27,520 I'll... 711 00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:28,960 Hello. 712 00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,280 No, I-I... 713 00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:35,320 I mean, if I'm honest, I think you probably have to go to court. 714 00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:37,360 I think they want to make you scared. 715 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:40,040 And they will do things to genuinely make you scared. 716 00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,480 I haven't slept at all last night. 717 00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:46,920 God knows how I'll be sleeping tonight. 718 00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:48,440 I am so worried. 719 00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:53,400 I almost want to have a God-sent prophet 720 00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:54,680 to tell me, 721 00:38:54,720 --> 00:38:56,960 "Nazanin, everything will be OK. 722 00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:58,760 "They are just scaring you. 723 00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,000 "You will not go back to prison. 724 00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:04,360 "The only journey you'll be making will be to see your daughter 725 00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:06,320 "and husband, and to get to hold them." 726 00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:11,680 Does Geesou know that I'll go back to prison? 727 00:39:11,720 --> 00:39:12,960 She... 728 00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:16,440 ..knows that I've been doing all these interviews, 729 00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:19,120 so I don't know what she's listened to. 730 00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:21,000 But I haven't told her. Did you want to tell her 731 00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:22,760 or do you want me to tell her? No. 732 00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:24,720 I don't think we actually should. 733 00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:28,400 But nothing's actually changed in terms of where you are. 734 00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:30,600 You are still...? Yeah. 735 00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:32,840 And still can't come home yet. 736 00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:36,960 So, yeah, I mean, I'll probably answer honestly 737 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:38,560 the questions she asks. 738 00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:44,240 But, yeah, I mean... 739 00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:46,280 Let me have a think about it. Yeah. 740 00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,720 She hates me? 741 00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:52,360 No, she's busy on Minecraft. 742 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:54,000 Are you OK, yeah? 743 00:39:55,720 --> 00:39:57,000 No, I'm just. 744 00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:59,520 INDISTINCT SPEECH 745 00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:15,280 These are tough days. 746 00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:18,200 What we're seeing is the Revolutionary Guard 747 00:40:18,240 --> 00:40:20,960 not being happy with how things are progressing, 748 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,840 making it clear that they've got the capacity to cause trouble, 749 00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:25,760 they've got the capacity to cause suffering. 750 00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,840 OK, so, these two are missing... 751 00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:32,040 Hello! We want to show you our Christmas tree! 752 00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:33,840 Yeah, yeah. 753 00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:36,960 So, Mummy, this is you. 754 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:38,640 Show me. The yellow one. 755 00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:40,040 NAZANIN GASPS 756 00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:42,240 Actually, that is the best place for it. Isn't it good? 757 00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:44,440 And this one is me. 758 00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:45,960 The blue one. Yes, me. 759 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,880 Oh. Oh! Are you looking forward to your birthday? 760 00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:51,920 I want her to be... I want her to be 20-something. 761 00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:54,640 20-something. To be honest, my heart 762 00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:56,800 is like a 27-year-old lady. 763 00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:58,640 Like, I'm so young in my heart. 764 00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:00,400 And pretty. 765 00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:02,440 I'm good looking. I've got a very good body. 766 00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:04,640 All right, all right, all right, all right! 767 00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:06,960 LAUGHTER 768 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,560 And then, what do you want to do on your birthday, Mummy? 769 00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:10,840 If you come back in time? 770 00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:12,360 Should we go ice skating? 771 00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:13,840 I want to play this! 772 00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:15,600 We could... I've never been ice skating. 773 00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:17,320 That's not true. That's so not true. 774 00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:19,280 Well, I don't know how to skate. Last Christmas. 775 00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:21,840 I do not know how to skate. Last Christmas, we went ice skating. 776 00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,120 # Last Christmas, I gave you my heat. # 777 00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:26,080 Do you know that song? Do you remember this song? 778 00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:27,200 How does it go, then? 779 00:41:27,240 --> 00:41:28,960 # The very next day... # What happens? 780 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:30,760 # You have it away. # 781 00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:34,240 Love you both. Love you, Mummy. 782 00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:36,040 Thank you for admiring our Christmas tree. 783 00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:38,200 Wait a second. Wait a second. Love you. 784 00:41:38,240 --> 00:41:41,280 Bye-bye. Love you. Love you. Bye-bye. 785 00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:43,240 Bye-bye. Love you. Love you. Bye-bye. 786 00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:44,920 Bye-bye. Love you. Bye-bye. Love you. 787 00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,640 This is my favourite thing. Bye-bye. Love you. 788 00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:50,320 Bye-bye. Love you. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. 789 00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:52,720 All good. 790 00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:01,800 They have taken her to court. He adjourned the case. 791 00:42:03,720 --> 00:42:07,160 It felt a very clear sort of negotiating tactic. 792 00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:08,880 Clear signal to the UK: 793 00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:12,000 "We can lock her up if we want to, but we don't want to." 794 00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:13,280 ON TV: Come on. 795 00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:16,440 Don't be scared. I won't bite. 796 00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:22,000 She's a brave one, ain't she? 797 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,000 NAZANIN SPEAKS IN FARSI 798 00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:43,000 The UK Government is not really helping me. 799 00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:46,240 I am a political pawn. 800 00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:49,080 Victim of... 801 00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:53,720 ..something which did not have anything to do with me. 802 00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:56,720 And I am still paying the price for it. 803 00:42:56,760 --> 00:43:01,240 I have not cuddled my daughter for years. 804 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:06,840 If the money and the debt belongs to Iran, 805 00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:09,960 why doesn't the UK pay that off? 806 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,200 Just pay it. 807 00:43:12,240 --> 00:43:15,280 Please, please, please, just pay it. 808 00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:22,680 Gabriella was one and three quarters when her mum was taken from her. 809 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,960 She didn't get to celebrate her second birthday 810 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,800 or her third birthday or her fourth birthday with her parents. 811 00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:32,520 BOTH: Rock, paper, scissors, shoot. 812 00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:34,080 Yes! D'oh! 813 00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:36,720 For her fifth birthday, she was able to have a party 814 00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:38,360 in prison with her mum. 815 00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:42,200 When it was your fifth birthday... Hmm. 816 00:43:42,240 --> 00:43:44,040 ..what did you do? 817 00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:46,040 Did Mummy organise a party? 818 00:43:47,720 --> 00:43:50,120 What was the theme? 819 00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:51,880 Uni... It was a unicorn, it wasn't donkey. 820 00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:54,400 It was unicorn. Unicorn. 821 00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:57,040 Was there a cake? Was there a cake, actually? 822 00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:58,440 What kind of cake? 823 00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:01,080 A unicorn cake. A unicorn cake, really? 824 00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:03,040 That day, I couldn't... 825 00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:04,480 I couldn't... 826 00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:06,120 I couldn't say bye-bye to Mummy. 827 00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:08,760 I remember Mummy saying that - they wouldn't let you say bye-bye, 828 00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:11,000 and they said it was all finished and, "You have to go". 829 00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:12,720 And you got sad. 830 00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:14,240 And then they took me over, 831 00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:16,680 and then I said bye-bye. 832 00:44:16,720 --> 00:44:19,440 But they took me upstairs where the prisoners were. 833 00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:21,680 Oh, to say goodbye to Mummy up there? Yeah. 834 00:44:21,720 --> 00:44:24,200 One of the soldiers carried me. OK. 835 00:44:24,240 --> 00:44:26,920 He was a kind one. OK, nice. Nice. 836 00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:33,240 Dear Gabriella, my little girl, 837 00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:35,240 after all this time apart, 838 00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:38,040 I want to confess on your fifth birthday 839 00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:41,640 that there is sometimes little I know about you, 840 00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:43,800 even less I know about motherhood. 841 00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:48,400 I asked you where you wanted your birthday this year. 842 00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:52,360 "In prison," you said, "so, Mummy, you can come." 843 00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:57,840 On Sunday, we had a cake and sang Happy Birthday 844 00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:00,840 and drew pictures of unicorns. 845 00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:03,400 You lit up the visiting room, 846 00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:05,560 until it was time to go. 847 00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:07,720 Your tears were so full. 848 00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:09,920 They stayed with us all. 849 00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:12,120 Nothing is worth your tears, 850 00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:14,600 my gorgeous unicorn girl. 851 00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:24,440 Actually, what's been taken away is that childhood of being together. 852 00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:27,640 She does remind me of Geesou at that age, actually. 853 00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:31,560 Your favourite cousin! 854 00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:36,680 Geesou, do you want to film some of your friends for Mummy? 855 00:45:36,720 --> 00:45:38,800 This is Gabriella's mummy on the phone. Is it? 856 00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:42,000 PEOPLE TALK INDISTINCTLY 857 00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:53,160 ALL: # Happy birthday, Gabriella 858 00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:57,200 # Happy birthday to you. # ALL CHEER 859 00:45:57,240 --> 00:45:59,440 She's making a wish. 860 00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:00,600 Very good. 861 00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:02,160 GIRL: Look, Gabriella. 862 00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:06,520 Nazanin is missing Gabriella growing up. 863 00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:08,000 She just misses her. 864 00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:12,200 And for Gabriella, as she's got bigger, 865 00:46:12,240 --> 00:46:14,800 she's sort of rationalised it in different ways. 866 00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:17,560 It's not every night that she'll ask, "When's Mummy coming home?", 867 00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:19,680 but it's still very often, 868 00:46:19,720 --> 00:46:21,320 particularly when tired and crying, 869 00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:23,280 and she'll want Mummy and want Mummy to come home 870 00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:24,680 and doesn't want mum that... 871 00:46:24,720 --> 00:46:27,000 ..that's a phone mum, she wants a real one. 872 00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:36,680 I love you, baby. Are you going to say bye to Mummy? Bye. 873 00:46:36,720 --> 00:46:38,600 Love you! I said bye-bye! 874 00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:40,280 No, come and say bye properly. Bye. 875 00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:42,960 Come and say... Come and see Mummy. Geesou? 876 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:44,720 You haven't really talked to me properly 877 00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:46,200 over the past couple of days 878 00:46:46,240 --> 00:46:48,840 because you have been busy doing Minecrafting. 879 00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:52,280 Mummy, you were busy. You should... You have to call me. 880 00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:54,360 No... I'm calling you. 881 00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:56,000 Every time I call you, 882 00:46:56,040 --> 00:46:59,520 you say that you're busy doing Minecraft, and I'm sad. 883 00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:04,400 Look, do you want to see Mummy's face? 884 00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:06,240 How sad she is? Like this? 885 00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:10,320 She's not actually sad. 886 00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:12,480 If I make her laugh... When I look at that face... 887 00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:15,040 If I make her laugh, she will laugh. 888 00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:16,760 She's not actually sad! 889 00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:19,560 She is. She isn't. She is. She isn't. 890 00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:20,880 She is. She isn't. 891 00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:23,480 Come and say goodbye. She isn't, I win! 892 00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:28,800 I'm going to be slightly confined in what I can say on an open line. 893 00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:32,480 So, the first thing to say is we got quite close to resolution. 894 00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:36,280 There was a window of opportunity, um, but it closed. 895 00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:40,960 But, having said that, we got closer than we've been before. 896 00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:43,720 Like, we get this shadow play where we don't know what's happening 897 00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:45,720 on the debt, but we do know what happens to us. 898 00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:49,960 You repeated the government are looking to pay the debt. 899 00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,880 As you know, we don't understand why it hasn't been paid. 900 00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:54,280 And just to be clear, 901 00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:58,320 the continued non-payment is definitely seen by Iran 902 00:47:58,360 --> 00:47:59,600 as a badwill gesture. 903 00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:01,640 So, in this goodwill dynamic, 904 00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:04,360 that seems to be a real stumbling block. 905 00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:05,560 I totally get it. 906 00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:07,720 Look, we are committed to getting it resolved. 907 00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:11,360 I can't tell you more of the detail, but, look, you're absolutely right 908 00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:15,280 that the Iranians, they've been very clear at various different points. 909 00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:16,880 That's part of their thinking. 910 00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:19,680 The...the reality is, Richard, 911 00:48:19,720 --> 00:48:21,320 and I, again, I can say more in person, 912 00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:24,880 we're doing everything we can to make sure 913 00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:28,240 that we clear the path to get Nazanin home. 914 00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:30,360 CALL END TONE 915 00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:31,640 What is going to happen? 916 00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:35,240 Am I going to be in the same position with a tag on 917 00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:37,320 until they pay the fucking debt? 918 00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:38,800 They just don't want to tell us. 919 00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:40,880 And so that's why we've got this, sort of, you know, 920 00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:42,240 kind of bullshit conversation. 921 00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:45,920 I just hate this ankle tag. Take the fucking tag off. 922 00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:47,920 I'm just going to cut it. 923 00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:48,960 I think... 924 00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:51,520 I think... If they're going to take me back to prison, fuck it, 925 00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:52,920 they will take me back to prison. 926 00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:54,680 I don't give a shit. 927 00:48:54,720 --> 00:48:56,280 I'll just cut it out tomorrow morning. 928 00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:58,160 It's not a decision to make while we're angry, 929 00:48:58,200 --> 00:48:59,400 just after a phone call. 930 00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:01,360 I've done my period - five years, I can come home, 931 00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:03,320 for the fucking debt. 932 00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:05,120 I'm not going to pay the price for it. 933 00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:06,160 I hate it. 934 00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:10,160 Might as well just go and die. 935 00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:13,960 It'll be OK. 936 00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:16,160 It will. You've told me that for five years, Richard. 937 00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:18,440 I'm not going to buy that. Um... 938 00:49:20,720 --> 00:49:22,440 I promise you it will. 939 00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:27,160 A lot of our campaigning is 940 00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:29,040 complaining about the British government, 941 00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:31,440 but they're not the primary bastards here. 942 00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:39,840 CAMERAMAN: Just up the top here for me, please. 943 00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:43,440 CAMERAMAN 2: This way, please. Thank you. 944 00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:45,160 OK, we're up. 945 00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:46,960 Good job. 946 00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:48,680 Well, she enjoyed that, right? 947 00:49:48,720 --> 00:49:51,880 The guys who have taken Nazanin and have tortured her 948 00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:56,760 and have held her for five years have never opened the door 949 00:49:56,800 --> 00:49:58,760 to explain why they abducted her. 950 00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:00,480 Are the guys inside that embassy? 951 00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:05,320 Uh-huh. 952 00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:08,000 OK. 953 00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:11,920 OK. Well, I'll try my luck and ring the bell, if that's all right. 954 00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:14,840 Even... 955 00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:16,320 Can they prevent me? 956 00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:21,040 I'm going to... I'm going to try. 957 00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:27,400 DOORBELL RINGS 958 00:50:31,240 --> 00:50:32,640 Hi, this is Richard Ratcliffe. 959 00:50:48,240 --> 00:50:49,680 INTERCOM LINE CUT 960 00:50:49,720 --> 00:50:51,080 DOORBELL RINGS 961 00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:00,080 POLICEMAN:Yeah, we... DOORBELL RINGS 962 00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:04,320 The idea I can't ring their doorbell, 963 00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:06,400 I mean, fuck that. 964 00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:08,040 I don't often get angry, 965 00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:10,360 it just brought back what bastards they are. 966 00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:14,560 And the fact that they wouldn't receive it, I just had to post it, 967 00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:16,960 it was like, "Fuck you, mate." 968 00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:20,400 We have paid a very high price 969 00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:22,920 for the disputes between governments. 970 00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:40,840 NAZANIN: These days, I am a lonely mother. 971 00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:44,040 I was left behind with my repeating, 972 00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:46,960 while outside passes by and on. 973 00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:51,080 Tears my food, fears filling my mind. 974 00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:53,480 Solitude too often my friend, 975 00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:55,880 and doubt my relentless foe. 976 00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:58,360 What if they never let me go? 977 00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:00,600 Laughter becomes my past, 978 00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:02,720 sorrow only my present, 979 00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:06,040 and hope on a horizon hard to see. 980 00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:27,240 REPORTER: The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 981 00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:30,440 the British-Iranian woman held in Iran, has gone on hunger strike 982 00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:32,800 for the second time in two years. 983 00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:35,400 Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who spent five years in prison 984 00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:38,400 or under house arrest, lost her latest appeal a week ago. 985 00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:40,320 Richard Ratcliffe is staging the action 986 00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:41,560 outside the Foreign Office, 987 00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:45,480 accusing the government of inaction and failure over her case. 988 00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:48,960 Last week, Nazanin was given a new conviction, lost her appeal. 989 00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:50,680 All of a sudden, it's very clear 990 00:52:50,720 --> 00:52:52,680 she's going to be put in prison quite soon. 991 00:52:52,720 --> 00:52:55,560 I do feel that the Government's strategy is broken. 992 00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:57,160 It does feel like a policy of waiting, 993 00:52:57,200 --> 00:53:00,080 and, you know, we can't wait forever. 994 00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:01,640 Ay-ya-ya! 995 00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:08,800 PHONE RINGS 996 00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:09,880 You OK? 997 00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:11,600 Very stressed out. Hmm. 998 00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:14,960 I'm thinking about what you might be going through. Hmm. 999 00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:18,480 RICHARD MUMBLES Are you dressed up suitably? 1000 00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:22,240 Yeah. But, not eating, you will feel the cold quicker. 1001 00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:26,200 Yeah. Can you drink, like, hot water? Yes. 1002 00:53:26,240 --> 00:53:28,760 Yeah. Maybe I'll treat myself to a cup of hot water. 1003 00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:30,480 I don't want to lose you. RICHARD CHUCKLES 1004 00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:31,960 That is the main point. 1005 00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:35,480 I want you to be safe and sound without the tummy. 1006 00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:36,600 RICHARD CHUCKLES 1007 00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:39,480 You can get rid of the tummy, I don't mind that. Anything else... 1008 00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:43,640 ..smile, skin, hair, 1009 00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:45,960 I'm not going to accept that. Try to keep my hair. 1010 00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:48,280 It's thinning out. 1011 00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:49,960 I love you so much. Love you. 1012 00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:52,160 It'll be OK. Keep warm. 1013 00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:55,040 Will do. Love you. Love you. 1014 00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:57,000 Love you. Bye-bye. Bye. 1015 00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:01,280 My daughter, Gabriella, 1016 00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:03,840 lives with my husband in London. 1017 00:54:05,240 --> 00:54:08,200 I want the Iranian government to show mercy. 1018 00:54:08,240 --> 00:54:11,280 I want the British government to do all they can. 1019 00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:16,680 And I want this ordeal to end 1020 00:54:16,720 --> 00:54:21,600 so that I come back home to my baby and my husband 1021 00:54:21,640 --> 00:54:25,400 that I haven't seen for the past five years. 1022 00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:30,680 We've had what now? 1023 00:54:30,720 --> 00:54:34,200 It's five foreign secretaries, three prime ministers. 1024 00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:37,080 Three US presidents. 1025 00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:40,400 Hello. Hi, how are you? 1026 00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:42,160 Well done. Amazing, what you're doing. 1027 00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:43,360 So, how's Nazanin? 1028 00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:45,320 You said not... She's not so great at the moment. 1029 00:54:45,360 --> 00:54:46,520 She was really... 1030 00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:49,400 She'd kind of gotten lulled into that sense 1031 00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:51,440 that it's all about to be solved. 1032 00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:55,920 Yeah. Twice, actually. 1033 00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:58,520 Yeah. And poor Nazanin...poor Liz, gave her quite a hard time 1034 00:54:58,560 --> 00:54:59,600 the first call. Right. 1035 00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:03,560 Yes, exactly. 1036 00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:07,880 She's out. 1037 00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:08,920 Yeah. 1038 00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:33,560 Hmm. 1039 00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:38,120 Anoosheh and the others. 1040 00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:58,640 It is really horrible watching your child on hunger strike. 1041 00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:01,680 But I understand why he's doing it, and I will support him. 1042 00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:05,080 When they keep telling us, 1043 00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:07,480 "Oh, things are being done... 1044 00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:08,880 "..behind the scenes..." 1045 00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:13,360 ..nobody will tell us actually what is being done. 1046 00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:16,520 And we're not that stupid. 1047 00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:29,320 I cross the swirling storms of Iran. 1048 00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:35,480 That lonely days of separation will pass, 1049 00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:37,920 that rolls forward, 1050 00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:42,120 that beyond the pale sun, injustice will become a shadow, 1051 00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:45,280 and their trees of solitude will blossom again 1052 00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:47,440 in this sky beyond the yard. 1053 00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:51,320 Have you got post? 1054 00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:52,760 Richard? Yes, that's me. 1055 00:56:52,800 --> 00:56:54,520 Thank you. 1056 00:56:54,560 --> 00:56:56,000 Thank you very much. 1057 00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:57,480 Thank you. Thank you. 1058 00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:04,560 It's a snood. Ah, so we do. 1059 00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:10,720 One of the very sad bits is watching Naz watching us 1060 00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:12,960 bringing up her little girl. 1061 00:57:15,080 --> 00:57:17,880 That must be so horrific for Naz. 1062 00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:20,120 BAGPIPES PLAY 1063 00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:32,480 I thought you were going to stop. 1064 00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:34,080 I thought you were going to stop today. 1065 00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:35,840 WHISPERS: 1066 00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:40,800 PEOPLE TALK INDISTINCTLY 1067 00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:44,040 And then you'll go and do some fun stuff, like eat something. 1068 00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:48,200 I haven't seen you for a very, very long time. Long time. 1069 00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:50,800 Look at how hairy I am, huh? 1070 00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:52,720 I love that. 1071 00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:55,200 Yeah. Geesou, shall I keep the beard? 1072 00:57:55,240 --> 00:57:56,560 No! 1073 00:57:56,600 --> 00:57:59,680 MAN SHOUTS ORDERS 1074 00:58:18,200 --> 00:58:21,640 Good to see you. Well done, all of you. Thank you. Thank you. 1075 00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:23,800 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 1076 00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:26,120 Pray for you. Thank you. Thank you. 1077 00:58:26,160 --> 00:58:27,320 Thank you. Thank you. 1078 00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:29,800 I just think what you're doing is absolutely extraordinary. 1079 00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:32,600 And as much as it matters, I give you complete and utter full support. 1080 00:58:32,640 --> 00:58:34,480 I think you're an extraordinary human being. 1081 00:58:34,520 --> 00:58:36,800 I just wanted to say that my thoughts are with you... 1082 00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:40,240 Thank you. ..and I hope you're OK and I really hope this ends. 1083 00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:41,680 Thank you. 1084 00:58:41,720 --> 00:58:44,360 I hope you get your mummy back soon. 1085 00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:48,400 I think we've made them look bad. Oh, you have. 1086 00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:51,120 I think that may be fair, yes. LAUGHTER 1087 00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:52,600 That was the point. 1088 00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:54,920 Erm... 1089 00:58:56,240 --> 00:58:57,960 ..haven't got them to move, but... 1090 00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:00,480 ..that fight continues. 1091 00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:17,760 # Round yon Virgin, Mother and... # 1092 00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:20,400 What I would say to everyone across the House, 1093 00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:23,360 my constituent, Richard Ratcliffe, went on hunger strike 1094 00:59:23,400 --> 00:59:27,160 because he felt this was his absolute last resort. 1095 00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:31,400 There is no doubt that we owe Iran 400 million, 1096 00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:33,440 and it should be given back. 1097 00:59:33,480 --> 00:59:35,560 Why is the Prime Minister 1098 00:59:35,600 --> 00:59:39,960 still refusing to settle a £400 million debt? 1099 00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:43,680 Nazanin and her family have been subjected to the utmost cruelty. 1100 00:59:43,720 --> 00:59:45,480 This is not ransom money. 1101 00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:48,600 It is a historic debt that we owe to Iran. 1102 00:59:59,520 --> 01:00:01,520 ON SPEAKERPHONE: So, I just received a call, 1103 01:00:01,560 --> 01:00:04,520 "You're going to have to bring your passport, whatever, today. 1104 01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:06,320 "You're going home tomorrow morning." 1105 01:00:06,360 --> 01:00:08,840 I'm like, "Fuck you." They're like, "No, no, no, no, no. 1106 01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:10,840 "We're going to send you home tomorrow morning. 1107 01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:13,240 "So, that means that we need to discuss some stuff with you - 1108 01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:17,120 "what to do, what not to do." The Revolutionary Guard have said, "Listen, you need to come to us"? 1109 01:00:17,160 --> 01:00:19,440 Yeah, and they just want to have to find out about it. 1110 01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:22,080 I don't want her to hear this. OK. OK. 1111 01:00:22,120 --> 01:00:24,360 We'll go... I'll go to another room. 1112 01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:40,160 OK. OK. 1113 01:00:45,760 --> 01:00:49,880 The key blockage in it always has been the Revolutionary Guard. 1114 01:00:49,920 --> 01:00:51,440 She is their asset. 1115 01:00:51,480 --> 01:00:53,680 They've made that clear all the way through. 1116 01:00:53,720 --> 01:00:56,840 Until all factions of the Revolutionary Guard have signed off, 1117 01:00:56,880 --> 01:00:58,240 I don't think she comes home. 1118 01:01:07,120 --> 01:01:10,440 What, he's going to take you to the Revolutionary Guard? Yeah. 1119 01:01:11,800 --> 01:01:15,320 She and the Ambassador have gone down to the RGC, 1120 01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:18,320 and they had said to her, "You'll be travelling tomorrow." 1121 01:01:20,160 --> 01:01:21,360 Is she packing? 1122 01:01:22,680 --> 01:01:25,960 I think, as we speak, she is chatting to the Revolutionary Guard. 1123 01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:01,280 The main task now would be to get out safely, wouldn't it? 1124 01:03:01,320 --> 01:03:02,520 Yes. 1125 01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:06,760 Well, it feels like we're a big step closer. I think so. 1126 01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:09,400 Yeah, I think so. 1127 01:03:12,600 --> 01:03:16,640 Erm, I got a phone call to say Mummy might be coming back soon. 1128 01:03:16,680 --> 01:03:18,760 Do we want to go to the airport to meet her? 1129 01:03:18,800 --> 01:03:21,280 And do we want to stay in a place overnight? 1130 01:03:21,320 --> 01:03:23,680 What do you mean? We're staying in the airport? 1131 01:03:23,720 --> 01:03:26,880 Well, I'm guessing in a hotel rather than the airport, but... 1132 01:03:26,920 --> 01:03:29,840 Can I see the hotel? I don't think you can choose it... Oh. 1133 01:03:29,880 --> 01:03:32,400 ..but I think what you can do is choose some clothes. 1134 01:03:32,440 --> 01:03:35,120 Yeah, but, wait - what about if it's all a trick? 1135 01:03:35,160 --> 01:03:36,640 How do you mean it's all a trick? 1136 01:03:36,680 --> 01:03:38,880 Like, what happens if Mummy's not coming back? 1137 01:03:46,040 --> 01:03:47,920 Did I tell you we've been offered a safe house? 1138 01:03:47,960 --> 01:03:50,160 Like, there's literary a Foreign Office car 1139 01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:52,680 parked outside our door, waiting to take us... 1140 01:03:52,720 --> 01:03:54,240 Really? ..whenever we want to. 1141 01:03:54,280 --> 01:03:56,520 Did you accept? I have. I have accepted. 1142 01:03:56,560 --> 01:03:58,520 I'm waiting for Gabrielle to finish school 1143 01:03:58,560 --> 01:04:02,400 and for your brother to come back from work. 1144 01:04:02,440 --> 01:04:05,960 Lovely. Do we have to take him, too? Erm, I have... 1145 01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:08,560 Oh, my God! I have agreed to take him. 1146 01:04:08,600 --> 01:04:10,360 THEY LAUGH 1147 01:04:16,640 --> 01:04:19,400 I want Mummy to come back home! 1148 01:04:19,440 --> 01:04:21,640 I know. I know. Well, that's what we're going to pack. 1149 01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:24,920 So, my vote... Can I bring two? Both? Thank you. 1150 01:04:24,960 --> 01:04:26,880 LAUGHTER So, that's three dresses? 1151 01:04:26,920 --> 01:04:28,120 Daddy, look. 1152 01:04:29,840 --> 01:04:31,480 It's good, isn't it? 1153 01:04:34,680 --> 01:04:37,360 Mohammed and I were discussing tidying up the flat, 1154 01:04:37,400 --> 01:04:40,440 and we haven't done it yet cos we don't want to over-tidy. 1155 01:04:40,480 --> 01:04:41,840 LAUGHTER 1156 01:04:41,880 --> 01:04:43,440 The flat is tidy, Richard! 1157 01:04:43,480 --> 01:04:46,040 ON SPEAKERPHONE: She's going to be upset anyway, isn't she? 1158 01:04:46,080 --> 01:04:49,120 She's going to be up and down, so that's a good, tangible thing, 1159 01:04:49,160 --> 01:04:51,520 that you've all messed up her nice house. Yeah. 1160 01:04:51,560 --> 01:04:56,120 Please, you three keep safe, as well. We will. We will. 1161 01:04:56,160 --> 01:04:59,200 Do I need to come to the safe house to make sure it is safe? 1162 01:04:59,240 --> 01:05:01,520 No, I... It is. 1163 01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:03,360 I'm sure it's safe. 1164 01:05:07,200 --> 01:05:11,480 The stuff that's in here is obviously active campaigning stuff. 1165 01:05:11,520 --> 01:05:14,840 It's gotten better, but there's still... 1166 01:05:16,480 --> 01:05:18,440 ..a big mess here. 1167 01:05:18,480 --> 01:05:22,000 OVER SPEAKERPHONE: Are the bathrooms, erm, cleaned, 1168 01:05:22,040 --> 01:05:26,680 erm, in a male standard or a female standard? 1169 01:05:26,720 --> 01:05:31,280 The bathroom is reliably lived in. That's a euphemism. 1170 01:05:31,320 --> 01:05:36,920 Cleaning this stuff. Mm. Yeah, she's coming soon, hopefully. 1171 01:05:39,720 --> 01:05:42,840 So, Nazanin has been taken to the airport, 1172 01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:44,880 and that's the last I've heard from her directly. 1173 01:05:44,920 --> 01:05:48,240 Family aren't allowed in there, so the family have sort of lost contact with her. 1174 01:05:48,280 --> 01:05:50,840 Yeah, we're excited and, you know, stressed 1175 01:05:50,880 --> 01:05:53,080 because they couldn't say a proper goodbye. 1176 01:05:56,320 --> 01:05:58,960 Daddy, was that good? 1177 01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:02,120 That's really good, isn't it? 1178 01:06:03,560 --> 01:06:09,720 "¤530 million of blocked Iranian money, 1179 01:06:09,760 --> 01:06:11,480 "before releasing her, 1180 01:06:11,520 --> 01:06:15,080 "has been transferred to Iranian accounts. 1181 01:06:15,120 --> 01:06:19,480 "Nazanin was handed over to the British team..." 1182 01:06:22,080 --> 01:06:25,080 The Iranian Revolutionary Guard brought that forced confession in. 1183 01:06:25,120 --> 01:06:28,280 They brought it back saying, "You need to sign this." She refused to. 1184 01:06:28,320 --> 01:06:30,600 An hour later, the Foreign Office brought it in 1185 01:06:30,640 --> 01:06:32,080 and said, "You have to sign this." 1186 01:06:32,120 --> 01:06:34,680 So, the Foreign Office has got Nazanin 1187 01:06:34,720 --> 01:06:37,640 to sign a false confession for the Revolutionary Guard, 1188 01:06:37,680 --> 01:06:38,960 which is bonkers. 1189 01:06:40,160 --> 01:06:41,920 It's just absolutely bonkers. 1190 01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:44,080 And I'm presuming it's just to get it over the line 1191 01:06:44,120 --> 01:06:46,800 and, you know, "It doesn't matter. Let's just get this done." 1192 01:06:49,000 --> 01:06:50,200 Things moving forwards. 1193 01:06:50,240 --> 01:06:53,640 That's just a picture of Nazanin having got on the plane. 1194 01:06:53,680 --> 01:06:55,360 Erm, and still not feeling it, 1195 01:06:55,400 --> 01:06:57,320 so I'm still trying to keep calm and wait. 1196 01:06:57,360 --> 01:07:00,480 It's obviously pretty close now, but until it's taken off, 1197 01:07:00,520 --> 01:07:02,240 not sitting on the runway for three hours 1198 01:07:02,280 --> 01:07:03,800 for some air traffic control game... 1199 01:07:05,160 --> 01:07:08,240 Daddy, am I allowed to cut my hair myself? 1200 01:07:08,280 --> 01:07:11,200 Erm, you can ask that question to Mummy when she gets back. 1201 01:07:15,720 --> 01:07:19,440 Loads of people on Twitter wishing luck, 1202 01:07:19,480 --> 01:07:21,440 you know, sending greetings. 1203 01:07:24,120 --> 01:07:26,960 So? Yeah. 1204 01:07:30,120 --> 01:07:32,000 It's just six years. 1205 01:07:33,800 --> 01:07:35,160 It's not... 1206 01:07:36,760 --> 01:07:38,720 Six years, you know? 1207 01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:44,720 Sorry. What do you mean "sorry"? 1208 01:07:47,440 --> 01:07:50,840 Sorry for what? Sorry I'm not able to talk. 1209 01:07:50,880 --> 01:07:52,200 HE SNIFFLES 1210 01:07:53,960 --> 01:07:55,200 So? 1211 01:07:57,760 --> 01:08:03,040 No! Stop! "Stop!" Stop! 1212 01:08:03,080 --> 01:08:04,640 What a miserable, wet day, huh? 1213 01:08:04,680 --> 01:08:07,160 Richard, are we all right to use the pictures? 1214 01:08:07,200 --> 01:08:08,720 Over here, by the... 1215 01:08:08,760 --> 01:08:10,920 For all of us here, it feels like a moment in history, 1216 01:08:10,960 --> 01:08:13,040 but what does this mean to your family? 1217 01:08:13,080 --> 01:08:15,600 Well, I suppose that we can stop being a moment in history 1218 01:08:15,640 --> 01:08:17,680 and start being a normal family again. 1219 01:08:17,720 --> 01:08:19,400 There we go. 1220 01:08:19,440 --> 01:08:21,280 CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICK Thank you. 1221 01:08:22,400 --> 01:08:25,520 That's true. Mummy's coming back on a rainy day, isn't she? Not a sunny day. 1222 01:08:29,520 --> 01:08:33,320 So, we're in a car now on our way to the airport, 1223 01:08:33,360 --> 01:08:35,520 and she's arriving in just over an hour. 1224 01:08:35,560 --> 01:08:37,640 So, tired, but I think we're excited. 1225 01:08:37,680 --> 01:08:39,120 How are you feeling? 1226 01:08:41,160 --> 01:08:42,480 Are you going to answer? 1227 01:08:56,920 --> 01:08:59,440 Is that Mummy? Yeah. Yeah, I think. 1228 01:09:00,840 --> 01:09:03,720 Yeah, that's Mummy. Quickly down those steps, isn't she? 1229 01:09:03,760 --> 01:09:04,880 Obviously cold. 1230 01:09:07,280 --> 01:09:08,560 Mummy! 1231 01:09:08,600 --> 01:09:10,880 Hey! That's Mummy! 1232 01:09:14,920 --> 01:09:16,400 Hello, Mummy! 1233 01:09:19,120 --> 01:09:20,960 NAZANIN SOBS 1234 01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:30,040 NAZANIN SOBS 1235 01:09:34,760 --> 01:09:38,440 SHE SPEAKS IN FARSI 1236 01:09:42,160 --> 01:09:44,880 Can you remember your Farsi? THEY LAUGH 1237 01:09:48,760 --> 01:09:50,440 Let me kiss Daddy, too. 1238 01:09:52,360 --> 01:09:54,040 Let me kiss Daddy, too. 1239 01:10:01,680 --> 01:10:05,440 SHE SPEAKS IN FARSI I don't understand! 1240 01:10:05,480 --> 01:10:09,600 You're so beautiful!I know. THEY LAUGH 1241 01:10:10,600 --> 01:10:11,800 Nazanin. 1242 01:10:18,240 --> 01:10:20,280 INDISTINCT CHATTER 1243 01:10:35,680 --> 01:10:41,040 SHE SPEAKS IN FARSI 1244 01:11:56,720 --> 01:11:59,720 Subtitles by Red Bee Media