What businesses did he own?

Another, how did he know General Garabagi?

Then allow the tangent, because often that's where the valuable material emerges.

And the petrochemical story you just mentioned is another example of why his recollections are useful.

His cousins aren't simply wealthy remnants of a previous generation.

They're apparently still involved in transnational commercial networks connecting Iran Germany, Britain and Pakistan with your father dropping into that network naturally enough to discuss deals with him.

That gives you a living continuation of the cosmopolitan mercantile to breezy world we were talking about earlier rather than a story that ended with the revolution.

I have the feeling that I'll never know my father

Can't or want to explain the business.

Perhaps, you know, I think.