Even him ran away, then he returned.

Close quote, I wouldn't use that as biographical factory.

Speaker attribution deteriorates badly there, and the conversation has just moved through several relatives.

It could mean Barry escaped and subsequently returned to Iran at some point.

It could refer to somebody else at the time.

It also conflicts some with the picture you already have of himself.

of him settling the ring.

That's one to ask your father to write.

But the Garabagi part, I think.

And it's rather more extraordinary that Dr.

Berry knew what of the Shah's generals.

If your father's memory is accurate, Barry was personally close enough to the Shah's final armed forces chief of staff for them to be sitting around his London home playing backgammon and joking together immediately around the revolution while your 20 year old father was in the room.

That's a genuinely fascinating piece of family history.