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Europe and the US Face Off Over Iran Sanctions
European powers to set up payment channel to bypass US sanctions on Iran.
The United Kingdom, France and Germany have announced a new payment channel to facilitate business transactions with Iran. This channel has been set up in order to circumvent the sanctions on Iran imposed by the US.
Also in the programme: How the European invasions of South America led to climate change centuries ago; and the Iranian Kurd author who wrote a prize winning book via WhatsApp.
(Picture: Iranian rials and American dollars. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)
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Thu 31 Jan 201914:06GMT
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