An Iranian fighter ace makes flight to freedom
The Global and Mail / David Ebner
20-May-2010 (3 comments)

From stunt pilot to bomber to diplomat to accused spy to refugee, Yadi Sharifirad has endured changes of fortune that would destroy a lesser man.

He awoke, his feet grotesquely swollen and severely blistered, covered in plastic bags, after another beating at the hands of the henchmen of Ayatollah Khomeini in a Tehran prison.

This is where Yadi Sharifirad gave up on god and contemplated death in 1988. Lying on the ground in a concrete cell two by two metres, he was ready for the end.

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Anonymous Observer

And they brag about

by Anonymous Observer on Thu May 20, 2010 03:09 PM PDT

how they respect and value the sacrifice of those who fought in the Iran / Iraq war.  This is how they treated highly trained military officers, and then replaced them with a bunch of chagookesh and arazel va obash basiji and pasdar. 


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Anonymouse

Interesting story. He may know Hajiagha!

by Anonymouse on Thu May 20, 2010 10:30 AM PDT

Everything is sacred.


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Darius Kadivar

Amazing Story I met a similar guy in Paris

by Darius Kadivar on Thu May 20, 2010 08:44 AM PDT

They must have been of the same Golden Crown Unit Training But this one Trained in Texas Huston not Arizona.

He also wrote a book I highly Recommend. He too was a Iran Iraq War Hero and used by the Regime to train other pilots only to be tortured on three different occasions including a fake execution to scare him out.

He remains a Firm Monarchist to this day and worked with Shapour Bakhtiar.

Nocturne iranien : Mémoires d'exil du colonel Bidgoli Rad, de l'armée de l'air impériale iranienne (Broché) by Claudine Monin-Krijan


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