Biography
Former Iranian Air Force member who defected to the U.S. in 1973 to escape political persecution and then faced deportation; The Black Panther Vol. 17 no.1 (1977) reports an international campaign (CAIFI) to defend him against being returned to the Shah's Iran. [Source: The Black Panther (Black Panther Party newspaper), v17 no.1; digitized at marxists.org — https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/black-panther/index.htm]
