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...happy to read of TIME Reporter Raji Samghabadi's escape from Iran in "What Is to Happen to Me Tonight?" [Feb. 16]. What, however, became of his wife, who "had been frantically phoning [his] government sources"? Did she escape with her husband...
Although Mrs. Samghabadi did not escape with her husband, she too has now left Iran...
...such story, the plight of TIME Reporter Raji Samghabadi, has until now remained secret. A native of Iran who taught himself English by reading Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Samghabadi was managing editor of an English-language daily in Tehran. In March 1979, he joined TIME'S Tehran bureau and stayed on after the magazine's correspondents were expelled at the end of that year. Because of concerns for his safety, his name has been kept out of the magazine for nearly a year. Those fears turned...
While other revolutionary leaders in Iran reacted angrily to the news of the Shah's flight to Egypt last week, Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh expressed a certain measure of optimism about the crisis in an interview with TIME'S Raji Samghabadi. Excerpts...
...biased" coverage, the government finally ordered the two expelled. But 48 hours earlier Van Voorst had received a call from a Foreign Ministry official telling him to be in Qum that evening if he wanted to see Khomeini. Van Voorst had barely 45 minutes to collect Reporter Raji Samghabadi and Photographer Kaveh Golestan. Says Van Voorst...