Nazanin’s first Mother’s Day back home will make maternal bond ‘stronger than ever’ says expert

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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release last week was a huge cause for celebration and a victory - finally - for justice for the mum of one after she was imprisoned in Iran in 2016.

LINK This Sunday will be the first Mother’s Day Nazanin and her daughter Gabriella have spent together since they were separated at the airport in Iran when Nazanin was detained.

Gabriella - then a toddler - was sent to live with her grandparents until she was released home to her dad Richard. LINK On first glimpsing her mother through a window of the RAF airbase at Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, as Nazanin began descending the plane's steps after landing back in the UK, Gabriella exclaimed excitedly: "That's them now.That's my mummy!" And as Gabriella, who turns eight this June, rushed into her mother's arms — the intimate moment obscured from the camera as they stood behind a screen — we heard, amid the tears, the excited babble of a little girl's voice. "You smell nice," Gabriella told her mummy, before Nazanin replied: "Do I?

But I haven't had a shower for 24 hours!" The family are currently enjoying catching up in private at a safe house. Speaking to her MP, Tulip Siddiq, Nazanin admitted she was “over the moon to be home but exhausted,” and that spending time with her daughter felt “surreal”.Tulip Siddiq said: “Gabriella has already attached herself to her mother like an extra limb, beside herself with excitement to have both parents in the room at the same time for the first time in six years.” “For Nazanin, Gabriella is all she can talk about,” continued the MP. “They can’t stop hugging each other and kissing. “They then all collapsed into one bed, all three of them and fell asleep, Gabriella in the middle of her parents.