Brize Norton
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Weather | 10°C, Wind SW at 3 km/h, 91% Humidity |
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Shire county | Oxfordshire |
Local time | Sunday 07:40 |
Postcode district | OX18 |
District | West Oxfordshire District |
Dialling code | 01993 |
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ID | 2998744 |
About Brize Norton
Brize Norton is a village and civil parish 1 mile east of Carterton in West Oxfordshire. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 938. The original part of RAF Brize Norton is in the parish.
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Anoosheh Ashoori tells of Iran jail 'hell'
Class ='person_find_kisi' data-tip='kisi' data-kimlik='3600880'>Anoosheh Ashoori still has to pinch himself to be sure that he really is safe Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>At Home with his wife in Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>South London and no longer in the " hell" of Evin jail in Tehran.
" I still can't believe sometimes that I Am Back , " he told me from his Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>Living Room in Lewisham. " When I was in my cell I used to pinch myself When I was dreaming that I was with Sherry. Then I would wake up to the reality of being in my cell. Here, it's Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>The Other way around. "
It's a Big - But Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>Happy - adjustment to a Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>New Life of freedom, which began with his favourite beer and a Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>Full English breakfast.
" Even When I'm awake, for example sitting in Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>The Garden , I sometimes say this cannot be true, this cannot be happening. I must be in my cell and I'm expecting any moment to wake up. So I'm preparing myself not to be too upset When I wake up. It's still quite a challenge for me to be easy with being here. "
" Still at night sometimes I touch Sherry's hand to see if this is real, if this is happening. "
In August 2017, the 68-year old was visiting his elderly mother, who had just had a knee operation, When he was bundled into a van, blindfolded and later accused of spying for Israel.
At first he and Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>His Family assumed it was a mistake. The retired engineer had never been involved in politics. Among his inventions: a product to protect Iranian homes after a devastating earthquake in 2003, and self-heating boots for his daughter's cake stall in Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>Greenwich Market .
" You always ask - 'why me?'" he says. " It's like When there is an aircraft accident and somebody's child is in that aircraft. Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>The Mother may ask 'why me?' Why my child? "
It was only later that he realised that he was being held as a bargaining chip.
Iran wanted something from Britain - the repayment of a decades-old military debt.
" It wasn't me who was important, " Class ='person_find_kisi' data-tip='kisi' data-kimlik='3600880'>He Said . " It was Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>The Passport that was being arrested - But the holder of that passport was me. "
On 17 Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>March , - walked down Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>The Steps of a plane at RAF Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>Brize Norton .
Their release came after the UK finally paid Back Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>The Money it owed Tehran for a tank deal which, after the Islamic Revolution of 1979, was not fulfilled. Although both Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>The British and Iranian government have said the two issues should not be linked.
But British-born wildlife conservationist, Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>Morad Tahbaz , was Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>Left Behind and Mr Ashoori says he can't celebrate while such a " good" man is still behind bars.
" He's ill and needs medical attention, " Class ='person_find_kisi' data-tip='kisi' data-kimlik='3600880'>He Said . " Sometimes I think it should have been him instead of me on that plane, and Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>The Guilty feeling you have that you have left all these Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>Good Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>People behind is really painful. That is something I cannot come to terms with. I urge Mr Johnson to complete this Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>Good Work and to make sure that they are Back - Class ='person_find_kisi' data-tip='kisi' data-kimlik='3600880'>Morad and Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>The Other British nationals. "
He knows painfully well the conditions which they are enduring in Evin jail. He shared a cell with cockroaches, bedbugs and 14 or 15 Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>People - making his own headphones out of wire and foam to Class ='person_find_kisi' data-tip='kisi' data-kimlik='3600880'>Block Out Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>The Sound of other inmates' snoring.
" Although many of them are highly educated it is very difficult for all of you to always live in peace together. So sometimes fights happen. But then we learn Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>To Live with each other because we don't have any other choice. "
The hardest part of his ordeal was at the Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>Start - When he was held in solitary confinement and interrogated for hours at time. " I've put that behind me. I try not to think about it much, " he says.
Threats were made against Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>His Family and he tried several times to take his own life, thwarted only by prison guards.
But he says Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>The Most painful part of Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>The Experience was seeing Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>The Suffering of other inmates driven mad by their incarceration.
" There are Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>People there who are like zombies, " he told me. " They just go Back and forth in Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>The Yard . Sometimes you see them talking to themselves and gesticulating. They're in their own world. "
Then there's " the shrapnel" that hits the Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>Family Members of those wrongfully imprisoned. Mr Ashoori is well aware of Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>The Price his wife and children have paid, as they campaigned to get him free, often struggling for media and government attention.
It was memories of Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>His Family , and the camaraderie of fellow-inmates, that kept him sane. " When you are in your cell, you're always looking Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>Behind You . You're always trying to remember all Class ='person_find_kisi' data-tip='kisi' data-kimlik='3600880'>The Good memories that you had with your family. You're living in your memories. "
To pass Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>The Days , he exercised religiously, wrote copious diary entries and formed a Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>Poetry Society .
" It ended up with eight of us who would regularly meet in one of Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>The Rooms . Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>Among Us was a satirist. Class ='person_find_kisi' data-tip='kisi' data-kimlik='3600880'>He Said he could teach us Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>How To write Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>Short Stories . So then we had another Class - Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>Short Story writing. This initiated the thought that to fill up Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>Our Time we could form other societies. "
Mr Ashoori added: " There was this friend who had a PhD in physics. So he started teaching us Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>Quantum Mechanics . We had this very close friend who was a professor at university, teaching economics. So he started teaching us macroeconomics, microeconomics, Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>Managerial Economics . We had another inmate who had served as a diplomat in Venezuela. He had learned Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>How To speak Spanish so we started having Spanish classes. We started having a philosophy Class just before I left. "
He calls it " the University of Evin".
" You really learn Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>How To be resilient because you have so many challenges from Class ='person_find_kisi' data-tip='kisi' data-kimlik='3600880'>The Time you Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>Get Up , " he says.
His task now is to learn how Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>To Live a Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>Normal Life again.
" He keeps asking permission for stuff - to take mugs, to do very normal things that you don't ask permission for, " says his wife, Sherry. " He's very sensitive to sounds, I've noticed. For example, if we close Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>The Fridge door he'll jump. "
But the couple are Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>Looking Forward to " just getting Back to our ordinary life" Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>She Said .
" Obviously we'd really like to have a nice holiday But for Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>The Moment even Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>The Daily routine of life is nice. Just having a cup of tea is nice. Sitting together watching a film or series is nice. He's missed so much over Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>The Past four and a half years. I look forward to reintroducing him to them. "
The question in her mind, and in that of Mr Ashoori, is why it has taken so long to get him Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>Back Home .
" They could have done this much earlier. Nazanin could have seen her beautiful daughter much earlier. I could have been Back with Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>My Family , " he says.
" Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>This Was a debt that had to be paid. Why didn't you do it earlier? Why did we have to go through all these years? Could they stand even Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>One Day of it in Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3600880'>Evin Prison ? If they had actually experienced that they would have done it much earlier. "
Source of news: bbc.com