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Welcome to the Quillette podcast, hosted on alternate weeks by me, Jonathan Kay, and by Iona Italia.

Quillette is where Freethought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for

heterodox ideas and fearless commentary. You are about to hear a free preview of this

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Hello everyone. I'm your host this week, Iona Italia. My guest is Roya Hakakian. Roya is a Jewish-Iranian-American writer,

investigative journalist, poet and political commentator. I am a huge fan of Roya's work,

and her reminders of the Islamic Republic of Iran's long history of perfority and hypocrisy

are more timely than ever. She has been a guest

on the Quillette podcast several times before, to talk to us about her girlhood growing up in

revolutionary Tehran, about current and historical protests against the Ayatollos, and about former

government officials who found immunity for their crimes

in the West. She has also written some important long reads for the magazine. Today, I'll be

talking to her about her book, Assassins the Turquoise Palace, which Christopher Hitchens

described as unmissable on its first publication.

It is a riveting political and courtroom thriller about the assassinations of Iranian dissidents

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