Who are Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Anoosheh Ashoori and Morad Tahbaz?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : US officials had also been calling for Tahbaz's release with the US special envoy for Iran, Robert Malley, describing him as a "father, an environmentalist and a cancer victim".
50% : Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 44, was born and raised in Tehran and studied English literature at the capital's university before becoming an English teacher.
50% : On 17 March 2016, Zaghari-Ratcliffe travelled to Iran to visit family for Iranian New Year with Gabriella, then nearly two years old.
49% : He spent 10 years in the UK from 1972, while he studied mechanical and aeronautical engineering, before returning to Iran to take care of his ailing father.
48% : On 16 March 2022, he was released on furlough and remains in Iran.
45% : The three prisoners released today were in Iran for different reasons, but each endured years behind bars
43% : After a devastating earthquake in Iran in 2003, she went to work as a translator in the relief effort for the Japanese International Cooperation Agency.
42% : "It was very important for Nazanin to keep going back to Iran to show her daughter to her parents ...
31% : Until her release on 16 March 2022, she was held in Iran and accused of plotting to overthrow the country's government, which she denied.

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