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Persian palimpsest

28 September 2019

9:00 AM

28 September 2019

9:00 AM

It was 1966. We were two young Australians, fresh out of Melbourne University. We decided to drive from India to London via the Soviet Union. On the way, we had to traverse Iran, or exotic Persia, as we saw it, the kingdom of Shah Reza Pahlavi, he of the beautiful wives and extravagant week-long wedding celebrations in the ancient archaeological excavations of Persepolis.

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