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    Political pawns

    Mar 25, 2022 3 minutes
    By Patrick Wintour

    Dotted across Europe and America, families of as many as 17 dual nationals still held in jail in Iran are watching nervously to find out whether their loved ones will follow Anoosheh Ashoori and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on a plane to freedom, or be left behind.

    Many fear their freedom is not being made a precondition of the west agreeing a nuclear deal with Iran. Without an acknowledged debt to repay like the UK, some countries may have trouble striking deals.

    In Germany, Mariam Claren, the daughter of 68-year-old Nahid Taghavi, said: “It is

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