An Anglo-Iranian businessman who was released from Tehran prison along with Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe said he “was up and believed he was still in his cell” and had to “hold his wife’s hand to make sure it was real”. His home is in Lewisham, South East London.
Anoosheh Ashoori, 67, was arrested in 2007 while visiting her mother in Iran and accused of spying for the Mossad.
Speaking today in Lorraine, Anoosheh told host Ranvir Singh that he was “still adjusting to freedom” after five years in lockdown, while his wife, Sherry Izadi, “sitting in jail in the middle of the night.” count a head. in prison.
“It’s been great to be here, it’s been three weeks,” he explained.
Anoosheh Ashoori, 67, was arrested in 2007 while visiting her mother in Iran and accused of spying for the Mossad.
“I’ve dreamed of my wife and children, and I usually touch my wife’s hands while she’s sleeping, I have to make sure it’s real and not a dream.
Sherry, who met her husband while she was at university in England, said: “Over the years, this dream has become more and more unattainable. It still is.
“Some days it seems to you that there is no hope at all, but you never lose hope because then you quit the campaign and the struggle must continue and in our case it becomes a reality.
“For the first two months we had no idea what was going on and he had no idea what was happening to us.
Threatened, integrated. He couldn’t sleep, he was tortured psychologically and we were subjected to a different kind of torture because we didn’t know what happened.’
Anoosheh also revealed that she kept a diary in prison to keep her hopes high.
Released with Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe (pictured together on the return flight from Iran), Anoosheh said he “wakes up and believed he was still in his cell” and had to “hold his wife’s hand”. real ‘now at home in Lewisham, South East London
“It was Viktor Frankl’s book A Man’s Search for Meaning that inspired me.
“If you are suffering, if you find meaning or purpose in that suffering, it is no longer suffering.
“It was Sherry’s birthday in 2019 and we had two rose bushes in our prison garden and I took it with her for her birthday on September 12,” she added, pointing to a crushed rose pinned to her diary.
“When I got my first license I gave it to my mother-in-law and she took it to England.”
Sherry added that receiving flowers from prison in Iran on her birthday was “surreal”, adding that Anoosheh often forgot her birthdays and Valentine’s Day before she went to jail.
Explaining that she also kept a diary in prison to keep her hopes high, Anoosheh explained, “It was Sherry’s birthday in 2019 and we had two rose bushes in our prison garden and I dragged her for her birthday. September 12,” she added, pointing to a crushed rose pinned in the diary.
Talking about other changes she noticed in her husband, she added: “Even now, she sometimes gets up early in the morning, I ask why, and she says she thinks there are too many heads.
“Because he had to wake up in prison to get hired.
“Still asking for permission to use things, still very sensitive to sounds, jumping if I open the fridge.
“The first day we came home, we were like, ‘Can I use this glass to make tea?’ she asked. It will take some time for me to get used to it,” he added.
Anoosheh added that her freedom was “a challenge” and that she “still isn’t sure this is a dream” and that the couple’s “beautiful dog” sleeps between them every night.
“We went for a walk in the park yesterday and it was like a dream, I can’t believe it’s real.”
Speaking today in Lorraine, Anoosheh told host Ranvir Singh that he was still “adjusted” to freedom after five years of being locked up, while his wife Sherry Izadi (pictured together) said he was “sitting in the middle of the night”. I am convinced of this. with a head count in prison.
But the man who was released said he could not fully celebrate until other British citizens, including environmentalist Morad Tahbaz, 66, were free.
The family of an Anglo-American subject detained on vague charges of spying on behalf of the United States were persuaded that he would be part of the same salvation pact as Nazanin and Anoosheh.
“I won’t be celebrating my birthday next week,” Anoosheh added.
“It doesn’t seem fair to me to celebrate before the rest of the British citizens are released.
“I owe it to others – we’ll celebrate when they return,” he said.
Anoosheh denied and said allegations of “espionage for the Israeli Mossad” and “illegal wealth acquisition”. He is not angry with England after returning from Iran.
The release of the two British subjects came after months of intense diplomatic negotiations between London and Tehran, including the final payment of the £400m debt Britain owed the regime.
Source: Daily Mail
