‘It’s like a father that is brutalizing his own child’

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 The Iranian government has repeatedly shown that it treats its dual citizens as bargaining chips. In the past, it has arrested Iranian Americans and used their cases in negotiations with the US. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports on the case of one British Iranian who, three years ago this month, was arrested in Iran.

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