Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a new podcast from Politics Home.

I'm your host Alan Tolhurst and each week I'll be taking an in-depth look at the week's

biggest political stories with fellow Politics Home reporters and special guests from across

Westminster. I'm joined this week by Politics Homeomes' new political editor, Adam Payne,

and our political reporter, Eleanor Langford. And we'll be talking about the ongoing situation in Ukraine

and the fact that more than 100,000 Brits have offered to open their homes to refugees.

The release of Nazanin Zaki Raqler from Iran after six years, Boris Johnson's trip to Saudi Arabia

to try and avert the cost of the energy crisis, or, as he puts it, trying to wean the world off Russian hydrocarbons.

I'll also be talking to Labour's shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, Pat McFadden, about

next week's spring statement, where Chancellor Rishi Sunak is under huge pressure from both sides of the house

to pull a rabbit out of the hat that might ease the cost of living crisis. But we're going to start with that rare piece of good news in what has been a terrible

month so far, the news that Nazan Deghaaradcliffe was released from Iran.

Just hours before we record this, she landed back in the UK and was reunited with her family,

husband Richard and daughter Gabriela.

Adam, we'll start with you.

How do we get to this point?

What change do you think in the past few months that meant this deal could be done?

Well, Nazanin had been detained in Iran for six years, accused of trying to overthrow the regime there and successive foreign secretaries, including the current Prime Minister Boris Johnson, tried and failed to secure her freedom.

The disagreement, or at least the crux of the disagreement between the two countries,

dates back to the 1970s, when in the early 70s, the Iranian government at the time

ordered tanks and military vehicles from the UK government.

However, due to the Iranian revolution later in the decade in 1979,

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