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Old Dec 1, 2019, 8:41 pm
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ijkh
 
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Originally Posted by Gardyloo
On land 2 - arrested at gunpoint in Rasht, Iran, for taking a picture of a cute building that turned out to be the local office of Savak, the Shah's secret police. I was finally released after the cops learned I was working on a project for the provincial governor, who, surprise surprise, was one of the Shah's cousins.

The building - still cute -

Yea we stayed "hotels" that looked sort of like that building in Iran 1976. One time a small group of us were escorted out of Jolfa on the next train by SAVAK for creeping too close to the USSR. That was memorable. The whole trip was quite an experience for a college junior doing her semester abroad.
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