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"It?s not a matter of luxury, it?s a matter of loss of identity, loss of connections?"

"... and all the time seeing something really unusual and strange, which was the religious theocracy unfolding inside the country."

The suicide of Alireza Pahlavi, the youngest son of the Shah of Iran...

"I can only imagine [the trauma felt by] someone who had lived at a level of near adoration by those around him, and seen the grandeur with which his father was treated,? said Ms. Afkhami, who now also lives in exile in the US.

?And then to suddenly, really quite suddenly, be dislocated, separated from his parents and also when he was with them to witness his father, whom all heads of state almost universally had courted and admired and flattered, was suddenly a pariah, there was no place for him."

Full post as published by Althouse on January 05, 2011 (boomark / email).