pictory: Yazdi, Castro and Pretty Interpreter (1978)

pictory: Yazdi, Castro and Pretty Interpreter (1978)
by Darius Kadivar
30-Jun-2009
 

Ebrahim Yazdi visits Castro in Havana on behalf of the new Revolutionary Government in Iran. A Pretty Interpreter translates the conversation (circa 1978)

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Noticed the Havana?

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Castro is holding a Havana cigar in his hand but where is Yazdi's?


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