It is fun to be here, chanting silently along with the thousands of people screaming by. I even kind of wish the police would come and we could see fighting and shoolooghi up close. To top Freemason Lists are posted in the mosques. My cousin Javad, who is a student at Tehran University, tells us that there are lists of Imperialists, lists of Westernized People, lists of Friends of Americans, and so on. One day, Javad says that a friend of his saw Baba's name, on a List of Freemasons.
Baba asks, baffled.
Everyone looks at Dadash, who doesn't know either. When Baba arrived in L.A., three days after us, we picked him up at the airport and drove him to grandma and grandpa's house just in time to watch the Shah and Queen Farah stepping off their private jet in Egypt. The Shah said he was taking a short vacation, but the newscaster repeated this in a voice that meant we all knew better. The Shah himself must also have known. To top Italian Shahrzad writes from California.