Sunday Mirror

HUSBAND OF MUM JAILED Nazanin is petrified over new lumps in her breast

- BY KAREN ROCKETT

A MUM who has spent 1,000 days locked up in Iran is “petrified” by a new health scare and is in near constant pain, her husband revealed yesterday.

Nazanin Zaghari- Ratcliffe has found more lumps in her breast but prison bosses refuse to let her see a doctor, her husband Richard said.

In an exclusive Sunday Mirror interview Richard, 43, vowed to step up his fight to free his British-Iranian wife.

He said Nazanin is in agony due to an undiagnose­d neurologic­al condition and needs a mammogram and MRI scan after finding lumps in her breast – for the second time.

Richard said: “She has found some new lumps in the last couple of weeks and is petrified. She really needs another mammogram.

“The prison doctor thinks the pain in her neck, arms and legs, particular­ly on the right side, are connected to her nervous system and she really needs to see a neurologis­t to find out what is going on.

“The trouble is the Iranian Revolution­ary Guard, who we believe are behind any decisions made by prison authoritie­s, don’t care if she suffers.

REUNION

physical and mental health of his wife, who was 40 on Boxing Day. Nazanin made a cake and shared it with Gabriella during a 45-minute visit.

Richard said his daughter – who has been in the care of relatives in Tehran since 2016 – cut the cake “and wished her mum be free”.

She gave Nazanin a beaded wooden necklace she had painted at school the day before.

Richard also revealed he and his wife would love a second baby to “heal” the horror of their separation.

He added: “She is desperate to have another baby and is really scared she will miss out and it will be too late.

“We would love another baby. It is

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