Word: fereydoun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take any prisoners. Kill them." In a confession interspersed with sobs, Bahman Naderipour described how he and other agents, in response to this order, took nine political prisoners out of Evin jail in northwest Tehran, handcuffed and blindfolded them and then machine-gunned them. He and another agent, Fereydoun Tavangari, said that SAVAK murdered other prisoners in their cells, then turned their bodies over to police medical examiners with an explanation that they had been killed in gun fights while resisting arrest...
...Fereydoun Hoveida, 54, has taken the advice that personnel experts usually dish out to business executives who get the sack: Use your new free time doing something you have been wanting to do. Hoveida, fired as Iran's longtime United Nations ambassador by the revolutionary regime, is devoting his time to writing and art. The deposed diplomat, who in the past penned essays, film criticisms and six novels, has turned to nonfiction: the events that led to the downfall of the Shah and the execution of Hoveida's older brother, former Premier Amir Abbas Hoveida. Meanwhile, a Manhattan...
Next day the Bakhtiar government announced that it had fired nine prominent ambassadors from their posts, including U.N. Ambassador Fereydoun Hoveida, and Zahedi, though the latter said he would continue as the Shah's emissary. Not all the demonstrations, unfortunately, were peaceful-or approving. When the Shah's departure was revealed to a group of soldiers in Ahwaz, they poured into the streets, setting fire to cars and shooting wildly at crowds. At least 20 people were killed, 60 wounded...
...Ambassador needed a trim, so Hairdresser Sebou diplomatically snipped the locks of Fereydoun Hoveyda, Iran's Permanent Representative to the United Nations. The clip job took place during a party Hoveyda tossed to inaugurate Sebou's newly expanded Manhattan salon. Why give a bash for a hairdresser? Because Sebou used to be personal hairdresser and makeup man for Iran's Empress Farah. Besides, Hoveyda, who is a painter and novelist and has lectured on literature and film at Columbia University, believes that hair-styling is an art. "Everybody is creative in some capacity. That applies to hairdressers...
...fact, however, one group that SAVAK seems to have concentrated its attention on consists of writers, artists and intellectuals. Among those arrested and tortured in the past two or three years: Vida Hadjebi Tabrizi, a distinguished woman sociologist; Gholamhosseki Sa'edi, a renowned Iranian playwright, and Writer Fereydoun Tonokaboni...