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‘When the happiness wears off that’s when we’ll think of the trauma’
Aryan Ashoori tells the Star about the jubilant and surreal moment of being reunited with his father Anoosheh after five long years
The Ashoori and Zaghari-Ratcliffe families reunited after Anoosheh (centre left) and Nazanin (centre right) are returned from Iran. Aryan Ashoori is on the far left

THE son of Anoosheh Ashoori has described the jubilant and surreal moment of being reunited with his father after five long years. 

Mr Ashoori, a 67-year-old retired civil engineer, and fellow British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe were released from Iran on Wednesday, after years in a Tehran jail. 

Reacting to his father’s release, Aryan told the Morning Star: “It was pretty surreal. 

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