>> My mum and dad hosted Iranian refugees in the '70s. Lovely people. They were not
>> escaping the current regime but the western sponsored Shar's secret police who had already murdered
>> several members of their family for supporting alternative political parties!
Anybody working in, or visiting, London in the mid/late seventies would be accustomed to being waylaid by Iranians who wanted to show you pictures of their friends/relatives in the Shah's prisons.
Later the pictures were of people in the Islamic Republic's prisons.
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