Ken Taylor, the Canadian hero to Americans has passed. He was the Canadian ambassador who secretly sheltered six American diplomats for months and helped escape Iran after the US embassy in Tehran was stormed by Iranian revolutionaries in 1979.
It is also the story the Ben Affleck movie “Argo” was loosely based on.
I remember that time. I received a call from an uncle who was supposedly working as a geologist for an Oil company in Iran at the time. He called to tell us he was desperately trying to get out of the country because the situation had become impossible for Americans. He had his bank account nationalized, he was being stoned every time he left his apartment, and had his car firebombed several times. My uncle managed to get out of the country right before the embassy was taken over because he used his Irish passport to leave, even though he had used his American passport to enter Iran. Luckily the country's structure was in disarray and they didn’t check his credentials too closely.
Ken Taylor: Canadian envoy of Iran crisis fame dies - BBC News
It is also the story the Ben Affleck movie “Argo” was loosely based on.
I remember that time. I received a call from an uncle who was supposedly working as a geologist for an Oil company in Iran at the time. He called to tell us he was desperately trying to get out of the country because the situation had become impossible for Americans. He had his bank account nationalized, he was being stoned every time he left his apartment, and had his car firebombed several times. My uncle managed to get out of the country right before the embassy was taken over because he used his Irish passport to leave, even though he had used his American passport to enter Iran. Luckily the country's structure was in disarray and they didn’t check his credentials too closely.
Ken Taylor: Canadian envoy of Iran crisis fame dies - BBC News
