pictory:Yazdi Meets Castro, Cuba (1980's)

pictory:Yazdi Meets Castro, Cuba (1980's)
by Darius Kadivar
31-May-2009
 

Ebrahim Yazdi meets leader of Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro ( year ?)

Yazdi was the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs in the interim government of Mehdi Bazargan, until November 6, 1979.

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Brzezinksi and Yazdi, Three Decades Later (Newsweek)

Fidel Castro shares his ideology (1959)

Yazdi during Tibunal of General Rahimi 1979

 

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