Peyvand Khorsandi was only four years old when he and his family left Iran for the United Kingdom in 1976, three years before the Islamic revolution. His father, Hadi, a well-known Iranian satirist and poet, was the target of a failed assassination attempt allegedly orchestrated by the Iranian government in 1984. The attack was foiled by London’s Metropolitan Police following a tip-off from a senior Iranian official who soon went into self-imposed exile.
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