Chloe Hadjimatheou
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3,299 appearances
16 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 27 Aug
Chloe Hadjimatheou’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She controlled access.
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But Amira says the first couple saw Luna as really competent and effective, and so they were giving her more and more control.
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Both
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But other people in the regime were suspicious of her sudden rise.
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In their minds, she'd given up a really lucrative position at Al Jazeera to become what was essentially a civil servant in Damascus.
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It didn't seem to make sense.
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She's definitely a spy or was placed there.
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There were lots of these rumours and it looked like some senior people took them really seriously.
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Iran had been helping Bashar fight the war along with Russia, and some senior Iranian officials in particular were seriously convinced that Luna was an Israeli spy.
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Despite all the rumours, she was brilliant at navigating the politics of the regime.
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Along with her power, her wealth grew too.
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Luna was buying properties in places favoured by the regime, like Moscow and Dubai.
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Amira knows all this, she says, because she saw the paperwork for these places in the office.
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And there were rumours that Bashar bought Luna a restaurant too in the heart of Damascus.
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Around the time that Asthma was diagnosed with breast cancer, rumours started to surface that Luna's relationship with Bashar was more than professional.
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Years later, a video would emerge from around this time of Lunar and Bashar driving through Ghouta, a Damascus suburb that was obliterated by Assad's chemical attacks and bombs in the war.
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The two of them were looking at the rubble and laughing, taking the piss together.
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Amira says Luna was one of the women Bashar was sleeping with, but she had a special status, more akin to a girlfriend.
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Certainly, that seemed to be what a lot of people in regime circles believed.
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Asthma's father, Dr.
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