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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A dispatch from the early days of a divided nation
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.