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God of Poetry

Apollo was about more than going to the moon

Climbing Down from Vimy Ridge

One of Canada’s leading historians makes a different case for military success

Yadi Sharifirad

Yadi Sharifirad was a colonel and squadron commander fighter pilot in the Iranian Air Force in the 1970s and ’80s. After being imprisoned and tortured, he eventually escaped Iran with his family and now lives in Vancouver.

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Yadi Sharifirad

Escape to Turkey

An Iranian father places his teenage son in the hands of smugglers June 2010
I’d found a smuggler named Agha-Nouri, a soft-spoken man, tall, with white skin, who wore thick glasses, and was almost bald. He had a good reputation among his kind. The deal we struck was worth US$15,000, money I had acquired from selling my car and borrowing from a friend. For that fee, Shahram would be escorted overland to…