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cash for doing it. I'm the editor of the New European. Coming up on the New European podcast,

a woman trapped in Iran and facing new trumps up charges, a husband starving himself in despair, a child facing another

Christmas without her mother and a government that won't pay up to make it stop.

Join us as we go inside the trials and tribulations of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.

We'll also be putting more politicians and pundits in the hall of shame.

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