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…
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.