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“... to go stale. The worst thing that usually looms over the soup is a missed deadline. The diaries of Parviz Radji, the Shah’s last ambassador to London, are largely about lunches and dinners, many of them spoiled by subjects weightier than missed deadlines. Abuse of civil rights, imprisonment without trial and, above all, torture ruin many a delicious ...”

“... Karkouti, the Syrian journalist. Karkouti asks her whether she preferred the shah’s ambassador, Parviz Radji, to his revolutionary replacement, Afrouz, who had been injured trying to escape at the start of the siege by jumping from a window twenty feet above ground. ‘Glancing across at the injured chargé d’affaires propped up in the corner, she ...”