part 8:
After the death of the head of the family Uluğbek Mırza, his brother Abdulkerim Mırza, who took charge of the family, gathered the family council and suggested to leave Saudi Arabia and to settle in Iran. With almost everybody's unanimity this suggestion was accepted. Thus, 15 years of stay in Saudi Arabia ended and the family settled in the city of Kumbet at the north-east of Iran, near the Turkmenistan border. Settling there they've really made a very appropriate decision. In this new geography none of them felt himself as a stranger. My friend Shahid had been born in a city where Turkmens were concentrated. He had grown up with Turkmen children; He had learned Turkmenish there; He got to know Turkmen people and customs there; After finishing primary and intermediate schools, he began his education of Persian language and literature in Tehran University; exactly at that time he met the members of the People Fighters Group who began the fight against the regime of the Shah and joined them. AT the time he had finished university the regime of the Shah had been finished too. Together with the government of Humeyni, during the pursuit and supression actions that started against People Fighters Group, Shahid, who realized that his time will arrive too, escaped without even notifying his family and found refuge in America; and 3 years later he received his citizenship rights.
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