Iranians in the 70's before the revolution

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image showing Iranians in the 70's before the revolution

geaster on December 27th, 2018 at 22:34 UTC »

They look like the Middle-Eastern Bee Gees.

TooShiftyForYou on December 27th, 2018 at 23:07 UTC »

They look like the cast of That Iranian '70s Show.

FedorsQuest on December 27th, 2018 at 23:09 UTC »

These are all different artists, it’s like getting a bunch of famous people together for one photo. It’s not one music group. Also on the top left with mustache (lol sorry standing to the left and holding balloons) is Fereydoun Farrokhzad, he was killed, supposedly by intelligence agents, in his apartment, in Germany. He had been a vocal critic of the Iranian regime.

Edit: * indicates added info. There has been numerous examples of extrajudicial killings internationally over the years accredited to the Iranian govt, most notably the Mykonos Murders, also in Germany. A group of Kurdish dissidents were machines gunned to death i the Mykonos restaurant in Germany by supposed Iranian and Lebanese agents.

One that is less well known but just as if not more interesting is the murder of Ali Akbar Tabatabaei in 1980, he was a former press attaché of the Iranian Embassy and vocal critic, was shot outside of his house in Bethesda, Maryland by someone posing as a USPS mail carrier. The assassin was Dawud Salahuddin who was born David Theodore Belfield in North Carolina and was a Muslim convert. He fled to Tehran via Paris and Geneva immediately after and was never captured. He was greeted as a hero in Iran, and in a 1996 interview with 20/20 he admitted to being the shooter. He is still in Iran and in 2009 he was apparently running the Press TV website (Iranian state owned news org that is all in English similar to Japans NHK). I also believe he ended up having a role in an award nominated film called “Kandahar”in 2002 and was allegedly (big “allegedly” here) the last person to see missing FBI/CIA agent Robert Levinson. He’s like some insane bizarro world Forrest Gump