A delayed update, after a bit of a low for me, following the energy of presenting the petition to Downing Street, and reflecting on what happened at the Foreign Office and in Parliament at the end of last week, and thinking about when to present to the Iranian Embassy. All of which I will update on tomorrow. But I wanted to say a bit more about the real news of last week – which was Nazanin being moved out of solitary confinement after 45 days, and the end to her isolation. The key change is in the phone calls. Since Nazanin was moved last Wednesday she has been able to call her parents every day, one day she even called twice so she could speak when Gabriella was not asleep. Before Wednesday, she had not been allowed to call home for two weeks. And it had been one full week before that. Before it was at the discretion of her interrogator, who would stand over supervising her words, a call to her parents only given as a reward. Now it is a daily right, for up to 15 minutes a day. She has to wait in a queue for two hours each time to make a call. But at least there is company in this waiting. And the call is listened to by a regular prison guard, who is far less interested. Nazanin is also beginning to realise what is happening around her. She had thought she was alone. Gradually she understands. And she sent me her thank you for all the people who care. She is not yet allowed to call me as her husband, a situation illegal under Iranian law. But she is determined to find a way; and now has the strength to start complaining. I little understood how control works in Iran, because I do not experience it directly – but it is in the phone calls that I have most heard its echoes. These past weeks I often forget when speaking to Nazanin’s family that there are three people in our conversations. Particularly before we went public, I would be talking about the craziness or the cruelty of Nazanin’s treatment. When suddenly one of the family would say that we should not talk of these things, that the security services do an important job, which we only want them to do efficiently. It took me too long to understand what that meant. It also took me a while to realise why people don’t say anything. In Iran, it is only the closest, or those who have been through something similar, who continue to call Nazanin’s family. Nazanin’s father has not told many people he works with what is happening, they pretend not to know - because that way they can all continue working together. In the UK Nazanin has plenty of friends here with ties to Iran, including some who were at our wedding, who care very deeply for her. Some of them we asked to call her parents – but they have not felt able to, even those who called regularly before they knew. They have shared and circulated the petition extensively, and they have lobbied their MPs. But they have not signed it. They want to carry on visiting their own families. It is easy to understand the end of solitary – but I wanted to acknowledge that there are other kinds of isolation that have their hold, and we should not be too giddy about their grip. But what we did last week was break through some of that isolation. The simple truth is Nazanin can phone home. That is a real something. When you go out for your day, please appreciate that you did that for us.