Jeremy Hunt

The five-year-old daughter of a British-Iranian woman who returned to prison in Iran on spying charges to the UK.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 40, a charity worker from London, was jailed for three years over the allegations, which it denies.

her British daughter, Gabriella, who lives with her grandparents in Tehran, returned on Thursday to the beginning of school in the UK.

Gabriella's father, Richard Ratcliffe, said you've been "so brave".

the Appear with the Gabriella at a press conference at the houses of Parliament, Mr Ratcliffe said that they struggled to speak English, but had been interested in, to tell him that she wanted to visit a toy store.

He said, She Said "mom, that she'll see you again in London."

"you promised, mom, you'll be brave. It is just nice to hold you again. "

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, was arrested in April 2016 during a visit to Gabriella's relatives present, her family said. She is now held in Tehran's Evin Prison , where Gabriella visits her at least once a week.

The Family said in April that the new prison rules, meant Ms. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, and she was banned for making international calls.

Earlier this month, Ms. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, wrote an open letter to the mothers of Iran, in which She Said : "In the near future, My Baby will Leave Me , go to your father and start school in the UK. It is a difficult journey for your travels, and for me behind. "

last week, Mr Ratcliffe from West Hampstead , said that they had agreed that Gabriella should you return to the UK, to the beginning of The School year in September, but postponed the decision until after Ms. Zaghari-Ratcliffe was taken to a Psychiatric Hospital .

"I spoke with her yesterday and she was fairly desperate," he told reporters in Westminster on Friday. to happen

"One of the things that you don't really want, was to leave her daughter while she was still in prison. "

Mr Ratcliffe said it is a "real risk" to his wife, the mental and physical condition will deteriorate.

said In response to Gabriella, foreign Minister Dominic Raab reiterates its earlier calls for Iran to release Ms. Zaghari-Ratcliffe and said, the situation of The Family was one that no parent should ever have to face."

"Gabriella" is an innocent child and should be able to go to school and be with both their parents," he said. "We urge Iran to release her immediately, so that The Family can be reunited, in the UK. "

His predecessor, Jeremy Hunt , described the news of Gabriella's homecoming as "the definition of bittersweet".

He called on The British government to "redouble" its efforts to Ms. Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release, tweeted: "Now More Than ever, you don't need to know she is not Alone . "

Mr Ratcliffe told reporters that his wife had shared a prison cell with British-Australian wife, Jolie King, who were arrested with her boyfriend in Tehran at the beginning of the year, according to reports flying a drone without permission.

Ms King and her boyfriend, Mark Firkin,

has been arrested in Iran, A Number of dual citizens and foreign nationals in the last few years, many of them on espionage charges. The exact numbers are not known.

The arrests, and led to increasingly strained diplomatic relations between Britain and Iran.

Iran also claims it is owed £400m by the UK in respect of contracts, which has stopped More Than 40 Years ago between The International military Services (IMS)-a business that, in the trade, but was to sell of the Ministry of defence, armaments and the pre-Islamic revolutionary Iranian regime.

The contracts concerned the supply of tanks to Iran, which were paid for but not delivered in the country of the revolution of 1979.

the legal dispute in relation to the dispute is in progress.

The British government said that it did not "share The View " that the IMS liabilities, or any other bilateral matter, the reason for Ms. Zaghari-Ratcliffe ' s arrest, and that the two matters were "completely separate".

"Iran needs standards to live up to its obligations under international Human Rights and the Vienna Convention of documentary relationships, and release Nazanin come across Consul, and The Other dual-national cases without delay," a government statement by The Foreign office said.

The Family 's MP, Tulip Siddiq , said Ms. Zaghari-Ratcliffe would like to know, why do The British government to secure their release.

"I have now dealt with three Prime Ministers , three foreign secretaries, with four Middle East Minister, about this case," She Said .

"Every single one of these politicians have, looked me in The Eye and said, this has nothing to do with The Debt that we owe Iran. But we know that this is true. "

in the Last month, Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a meeting with Iran's President.

In 2017, when he was Minister of foreign Affairs, Mr. Johnson had to apologize after you told Ms. Zaghari-Ratcliffe was in Iran, "teaching people in Journalism " - despite her family's insistence she was there on vacation.

Source of news: bbc.com