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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has told how she will have no hope or motivation leftafter her daughter returns to the UKwhile she remains in an Iran jail.

The British-Iranian mother, who is being held in Tehran,will be left without her weekly visits whenher young daughter Gabriella, five, returns to the UKto start school.

MrsZaghari-Ratcliffis said to have agreed with her family that Gabriella, five, should start school in September but her return was postponed after Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was admitted to a psychiatric hospital.

But she has now made the agonising decision to send daughter home by Christmas,The Timesreported, andpleaded with the Iranian authorities to release her so she can returnwith her daughter.

Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe with her husband Richard Ratcliffe and their daughter Gabriella, before her arrest in 2016 (PA)

She wrote: I have no hope or motivation after my baby goes There is no measure to my pain.

Gabriella was 22 months old when her mother was arrested at Tehran airport in 2016. She has visited her in prison once a week for the past three years, The Times reported.

Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe is serving a five-year sentence for spying, allegations she vehemently denies.

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