Diego London movements your father remembers, but they certainly don't make them implausible.

After the revolution, he eventually left Iran and lived in exile.

Dr.

Berry returning to Iran later, also isn't inherently contradictory.

The immediate revolutionary period was lethal for particular categories of former officials and businessmen, but individual circumstances varied enormously.

If Barry had managed his departure with assistance from people inside the new order, that alone suggests his position may have been more complicated than simply enemy of the regime.

Years later, especially as an elderly man with Alzheimer's, the political risk calculus could have been completely different.

I wouldn't infer much about his relationship to the Islamic Republic solely from the fact that he was eventually able to return.

What strikes me most, though, is how much oral history is sitting inside your father's head.

He's only 71 and remembers people