Nader Parsia, Off Script: The Rest of His Story
Last night’s SDN was the Iran episode. What happened after the live show ended is the part I want you to see. Nader Parsia stayed at the table with Jeff Emde and me, and for the better part of an hour and a half he told the rest of his story. No script, no clock, no producer in his ear. Just a man who has lived the last sixty years of Iranian history from the inside, talking to people he trusts.
The full behind-the-scenes video is above. Here is what is in it…
A Diplomat’s Son in Khrushchev’s Moscow
Nader’s father was a physician turned diplomat, so the family moved every two years: Kabul under King Zahir Shah, then Moscow during the Cuban missile crisis. Nine years old, speaking no English, he was put in the Anglo American School the U.S. and British embassies ran for their own children and sat with the kindergarten class until he caught up.
Years later the embassies were gutted for renovation and the wiring came out of the walls, fifty-five miles of it. The KGB had been listening to every room. Nader says the microwave surveillance aimed at the compound is what killed his eight-year-old sister, and that seven American diplomats in the same block came down with cancers of their own. It is the first time I have heard that story told by someone who was in the building.
Nader stayed at the table for an hour and a half because he trusts our audience to hear the whole story. That’s what Guardians make possible: real news and survival guidance you won’t find anywhere else, plus SHTF emergency alerts, our private community and 20% off digital downloads at SurvivalDispatchStore.com.
Beaten in Baghdad at Thirteen
Iraq was next. On his way to school, five Iraqi militiamen pulled him off his bicycle and beat him with nailed batons for an hour. Neighbors dragged them off. The photographs of his back went to Tehran and landed in front of the Shah. Nader ties that beating to the Iranian Air Force flight over Saddam’s palace that ended the river dispute. When Baghdad answered by holding the Iranian diplomats at the airport for two days with no food or water, the Shah moved the army to the border and got his people home.
Tomcats, Reagan, and 1979
By 1976 he was in the United States on a student visa, studying aviation, headed for Iran’s new F-14 program at Pensacola. He met Ronald Reagan on a campus visit and still has the pin Reagan handed him. Then the revolution came. His father was jailed and sentenced to death. Nader went back into Iran, was captured twice, and walked out both times, once by putting a mullah on the ground and going over a cliff into a river. He crossed into Turkey and eventually found his way home.
He finished what the mullahs interrupted. He joined the U.S. Navy, went through Pensacola, and flew F-14s off carriers.
What He Thinks the Regime Does Next
The last twenty minutes are the reason to watch to the end. Nader and Jeff work through the IRGC’s people already inside this country, the money that has flowed to Tehran, and what a real end to the regime would have taken. Nader’s line, and he means it: finish the job while this administration is in office, because the next one will hand the same men the same cash.
See it before you live it.
Godspeed ,
Chris Heaven, Founder
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