During production, my older brother Cyrus found some rare artifacts. Framed and hanging above TIME magazine is a 16 mm print of Castle Films' 1953 News Parade. It's one of the treasures he found. And the blue vase on the mantle - that is a haunting reminder of the enormous debt still left to be paid.
TREASURES
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| 1953 News Reel includes a story about Mossadegh and the Korean War |
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| Lt. Colonel Gerald Hamilton Hamilton, Korea,1950's |
a.) 1931, Cadet Ahmad Valanejad with his older Sister Shamsol-Zoha
b.) 1937, 2nd Lieutenant ValaNejad
c.) 1943, Captain ValaNejad, Head of the Personal Guard of Reza Shah
(Reza Shah pictured on cover of TIME magazine, 1941)
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a.) 1931, Cadet Ahmad Valanejad with his older Sister Shamsol-Zoha
b.) 1937, 2nd Lieutenant ValaNejad
c.) 1943, Captain ValaNejad, Head of the Personal Guard of Reza Shah
(Reza Shah pictured on cover of TIME magazine, 1941)
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Diagram by Farhad Diba, Dr. Mossadegh's nephew
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Inheritance includes Karma
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| Inheritance includes karma |
DEBT
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Amir Kabir who is widely considered to be "Iran's first reformer", a modernizer who was "unjustly struck down" as he attempted to bring "gradual reform" to Iran. In the last years of his life he was exiled to Fin Garden in Kashan and was murdered with the command of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, the monarch he served as Prime Minister.
Howard Conklin Baskerville (10 April 1885 – 19 April 1909) was an American teacher in the American Memorial School in Tabriz who was killed fighting for Iranian democracy during the Persian Constitutional Revolution.
He has been called the "American Lafayette of Iran."
by Muhammad Sahimi for FRONTLINE, Tehran Bureau
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| Replace the angels with people who died while fighting for democracy in Iran. |
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| Chancellor of Persia May 1848 – Nov 1851 |
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| Howard's image woven into a carpet |
He has been called the "American Lafayette of Iran."
