Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been released from jail in Iran as the country attempts to deal with the coronavirus outbreak.

The British-Iranian national has been set free for two weeks as a temporary measure and is now at her family’s home in Tehran.

She must wear an ankle tag and is due to return back to Evin jail on April 4, her husband Richard said.

The British government has been lobbying for years for her release and today welcomed the development.

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said: ‘I am relieved that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was today temporarily released into the care of her family in Iran.

‘We urge the regime to ensure she receives any necessary medical care.

‘While this is a welcome step, we urge the government now to release all UK dual nationals arbitrarily detained in Iran, and enable them to return to their families in the UK.’

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Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport while travelling to show her young daughter, Gabriella, to her parents in April 2016.

The Iranian government claimed the charity worker was a spy and jailed her for five years.

Gabriella lived with her grandparents in Tehran until last year when she returned home to London and father Richard to start school.

Last week, Javaid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran, said he had asked Tehran to free all political prisoners temporarily from its overcrowded and disease-ridden jails to help stem the spread of coronavirus.

Iran’s death toll from the coronavirus has reached 853 and a total of 14,991 people have been confirmed infected across the country, one of the worst national outbreaks outside China, where Covid-19 originated.

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